The effects of early experience on subsequent feeding responses in the tegu, Tupinambis teguixin (Squamata: Teiidae)

Journal of Environmental Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-27

  Punzo, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA   (United States)

Author keywords

Early experience; Odor cues; Prey preferences; Tegu

Indexed keywords

WATER;

JUVENILE; LIZARD; ODOR; PREY PREFERENCE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BITE; ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIENCE; FOOD INTAKE; HATCHING; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PREY; RANDOMIZATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TONGUE; TRAINING;

AMEIVA AMEIVA; AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; MUS MUSCULUS; MUSCULUS; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; TEIIDAE; TUPINAMBIS NIGROPUNCTATUS; TUPINAMBIS TEGUIXIN;

EID: 0037277011     PISSN: 02548704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Arnold, S.J.: Some effects of early experience on feeding responses of the common garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis. Anim. Behav., 26, 455-462 (1978).
2. Ávila-Pires, T.C.S.: Lizards of Brazilian Amazonia (Reptilia :Squamata). Zool. Verh. Leiden, 299, 1-706 (1995).
3. Bellairs, A.: The Life of Reptiles. Vol. 2. Universe Books, New York (1970).
4. Bofill, M.E. and A.R. Lewis: Detection of socially relevant chemical cues by the teiid lizard Ameiva exsul. J. Herpetol., 33, 713-715 (1999).
5. Burghardt, G.M.: Comparative prey-attack studies in newborn snakes of the genus Thamnophis. Behavior, 33, 78-114 (1969).
6. Burghardt, G.M.: Chemical perception in reptiles. In: Advances in chemoreception. Vol. 1 (Eds: J.W. Johnston, D.G. Moulton and A. Turk). pp 241-308, Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York (1970).
7. Burghardt, G.M.: Chemical release of prey attack: extension to naive newly hatched lizards, Eumeces fasciatus. Copeia, 1973, 171-181 (1973).
8. Burghardt, G.M.: Learning processes in reptiles. In: Biology of the Reptilia, Vol. 7 (Eds: C. Gans and D.W. Tinkle). pp 555-682, Academic Press, New York (1977).
9. Burghardt, G.M.: The comparative imperative: Genetics and ontogeny of chemoreceptive prey responses in natricine sankes. Brain Behav. Evol., 41, 138-146 (1993).
10. Burghardt, G.M., D.G. Layne and L. Konigsberg: The genetics of dietary experience in a restricted natural population. Psychol. Sci., 11, 69-72 (2000).
11. Cooper, W.E., Jr.: Prey odor detection by teiid and lacertid lizards and the relationship of prey odor detection to foraging mode in lizard families. Copeia, 1990, 237-242 (1990).
12. Cooper, W.E., Jr.: Foraging mode, prey chemical discrimination, and phylogeny in lizards. Anim. Behav., 50, 973-985 (1995).
13. Cooper, W.E., Jr.: Correlated evolution of prey chemical discrimination with foraging, lingual morphology and vomeronasal chemoreceptor abundance in lizards. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 41, 257-265 (1997).
14. Cooper, W.E., Jr.: Food chemical discriminations by a herbivorous lizard, Corucia zebrata. J. Exp. Zool., 286, 372-379 (2000a).
15. Cooper, W.E., Jr.: Chemical discrimination of potential food items by a xantusid lizard, Lepidophyma flavimaculatum. J. Herpetol., 34, 323-325 (2000b).
16. Cooper, W.E., Jr. and G.M. Burghardt.: A comparative analysis of scoring methods for chemical discrimination of prey by squamate reptiles. J. Chem. Ecol., 16, 45-65 (1990).
17. Cooper, W.E., Jr. and R. Hartdegen: Lingual and biting responses to prey chemicals by ingestively naive scincid lizards: discrimination from control chemicals, time course, and effect of method of stimulus presentation. Chemoecol., 31, 444-460 (2000).
18. Cooper, W.E., Jr. and L.J. Vitt.: Thermal dependence of tongue flicking and comments on use of tongue flicking as an index of squamate behavior. Ethology, 71, 177-186 (1986).
19. Cooper, W.E., Jr. and L.J. Vitt.: Prey odor discrimination by the broad-headed skink (Eumeces laticeps). J. Exp. Zool., 249, 11-16 (1989).
20. Davey, G.: Ecological Learning Theory. Routledge, London (1989).
21. Ditmars, R.L.: Reptiles of the World. Macmillan Co., New York (1933).
22. Fitzgerald, L.A.: Tupinambis lizards: A sustainable use approach to conservation and development. Conserv. Biol., 8, 12-16 (1994).
23. Fitzgerald, L.A., J.M. Chiani and O.E. Donadio.: Tupinambis lizards in Argentina. In: Neotropical wildlife use and conservation. (Eds: J.G. Robinson and K.H. Redford). pp 303-316. Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois (1991).
24. Garrett, C.M. and W.C. Card.: Chemical discrimination of prey by naive neonate Gould's monitors Varanus rouldii. J. Chem. Ecol., 19, 2599-2604 (1993).
25. Graves, B.M., G.C. Carpenter and D. Duvall.: Chemosensory behaviors of neonatal prairie rattlesnakes, Crotalus viridis. Southwest. Nat., 32, 515-516 (1987).
26. Halpern, M.: Nasal chemical senses in reptiles: structure and function. In: Biology of the Reptilia, Vol. 18, Hormones, Brain, and Behavior (Eds: C. Gans and D. Crews). pp 423-523., Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois (1992).
27. Hess, E.H.: Imprinting. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York (1973).
28. Kats, L.B. and M. Dill.: The scent of death: chemosensory assessment of predation risk by prey animals. Ecoscience, 5, 361-394 (1998).
29. Kaufman, J.D., G.M. Burghardt and J.A. Phillips.: Sensory cues and foraging decisions in a large carnivorous lizard, Varanus albigularis. Anim. Behav., 52, 727-736 (1996).
30. Loop, M.S.: The effects of feeding experience on the response to prey-object extracts in rat snakes. Psychon. Sci., 21, 189-190 (1970).
31. Lyman-Renley, L.P. and G.M. Burghardt.: Diet, litter, and sex effects on chemical prey preference, growth, and site selection in two sympatric species of Thamnophis. Herpetol. Monogr., 9, 140-160 (1995).
32. Noble, G.K. and K.P. Kumpf: The function of Jacobson's organ in lizards. J. Genet. Psychol. 48, 371-382 (1936).
33. Punzo, F.: Feeding ecology of the six-lined racerunner (Cnemidophorus sexlineatus) in southern Florida. Herpetol. Rev., 21, 33-35 (1990).
34. Punzo, F.: The Mediterranean Gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus : life in an urban landscape. Florida Scient., 64, (2001a).
35. Punzo, F.: Studies on the natural history and ecology of sympatric whiptail lizards (Cnemidophorus marmoratus and C. tesselatus) in Madera Canyon (Brewster Co., Texas). Texas J. Science, 53, 43-54 (2001b).
36. Punzo, F. and O. Kukoyi: The effects of prey chemical cues on patch residence time in the wolf spider, Trochosa parthenus Chamberlin (Lycosidae) and the lynx spider, Oxyapes salticus Hentz (Oxyopidae). Bull. Br. Arachnal. Sac., 10, 323-327 (1997).
37. Punzo, F. and S. Madragon: Spatial learning in Australian skinks of the genus Ctenatus (Scincidae). Amphibia - Reptilia (2002, in press).
38. Simon, C.A.: A review of lizard chemoreception. In: Lizard Ecology: Studies of a model organism (Eds: R.B. Huey, E.R. Pianka and T.W. Schoener). pp 119-133, Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1983).
39. Sokal, R.R. and F.J. ROHLF.: Biometry. Third ed., W.H. Freeman, San Francisco, California (1995).
40. Stimac, K., C.W. Radcliffe and D. Chiszar.: Prey recognition learning by red spitting cobras, Naja mossambica pallida. Bull. Psychan. Sac., 19, 187-189 (1982).
41. Von Achen, P.H. and J. L. Rakestraw.: The role of chemoreception in the prey selection of neonate reptiles. In: Vertebrate Ecology and Systematics: A tribute to Henry S. Fitch (Eds: R.A. Siegel, L.E. Hunt, J.L. Knight, L. Malaret and N.L. Zuschlag). pp 163-172, Univ. of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas (1984).