Foraging mode and evolution of strike-induced chemosensory searching in lizards

Journal of Chemical Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1013-1026

  Cooper Jr , William E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Foraging mode; Prey chemical discrimination; Squamata; Strike induced chemosensory searching; Tongue flicking; Vomerolfaction

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; CHEMORECEPTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LIZARD; PREY LOCATION; SNAKE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BITE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; ENVENOMATION; EVOLUTION; FORAGING; GUSTATORY SYSTEM; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PREY; PREY CHEMICAL DISCRIMINATION; PREY SELECTION; SMELLING; SNAKE; STRIKE INDUCED CHEMOSENSORY SEARCHING; TONGUE FLICKING BEHAVIOR; VOMEROLFACTORY FUNCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; LIZARDS; MOVEMENT; PHYLOGENY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SMELL; SNAKES; TASTE; TONGUE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0037389194     PISSN: 00980331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022948219985     Document Type: Article

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