Why do juvenile Chinese pit-vipers (Gloydius shedaoensis) select arboreal ambush sites?

Ethology

Volumn 108, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 897-910

  Shine, Richard ^a   Sun, Li Xin ^b   Kearney, Michael ^a   Fitzgerald, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Snake Island Natural Protection District ^*  (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT SELECTION; ONTOGENY; PREY CAPTURE; SNAKE;

CHINA;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; CROTALINAE; GLOYDIUS; GLOYDIUS SHEDAOENSIS; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; VIPERINAE;

EID: 0036794622     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.2002.00824.x     Document Type: Article

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