Drinking in snakes: Kinematic cycling and water transport

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 203, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 2171-2185

  Cundall, Dvid ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drinking; Interspecific variation; Intraspecific variation; Kinematics; Snake

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; DRINKING; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HISTOLOGY; JAW; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; SNAKE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; DRINKING; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; JAW; SNAKES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VIDEO RECORDING;

ANIMALIA; COLUBRIDAE; HENOPHIDIA; SERPENTES; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 0033864751     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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