Juvenile western toads, Bufo boreas, avoid chemical cues of snakes fed juvenile, but not larval, conspecifics

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 871-875

  Belden, L K ^a   Wildy, E L ^a   Hatch, A C ^a   Blaustein, A R ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; CHEMICAL CUE; DIET; SNAKE; TOAD;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; BOREAS; BUFO BOREAS; PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI; REPTILIA; SERPENTES;

EID: 0033858275     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1398     Document Type: Article

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