Conspicuous males suffer higher predation risk: Visual modeling and experimental evidence from lizards

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 541-550

  Stuart Fox, Devi M ^a,c   Moussalli, Adnan ^a   Marshall, N Justin ^a   Owens, Ian P F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; LIZARD; PREDATION RISK;

AVES; CTENOPHORUS DECRESII; CTENOPHORUS VADNAPPA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0042285480     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2235     Document Type: Article

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