The effect of body armature on escape behaviour in cordylid lizards

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 313-321

  Losos, Jonathan B ^a,b   Mouton, P Le Fras N ^a   Bickel, Ryan ^b   Cornelius, Ian ^b   Ruddock, Lanral ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BODY CONDITION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; LIZARD; PHYLOGENETICS;

CORDYLIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0036395234     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2002.3051     Document Type: Article

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