Intraoral transport of prey in the reticulated Python: Tests of a general tetrapod feeding model

Zoology

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 7-23

  Kardong, Kenneth V ^a   Berkhoudt, Herman ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Evolutionary morphology; Feeding mechanisms; Intraoral transport behavior; Snakes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039521918     PISSN: 09442006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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