'Handedness' in snakes? Lateralization of coiling behaviour in a cottonmouth, Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma, population

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 337-341

  Roth, Eric D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; SNAKE;

AGKISTRODON; AGKISTRODON PISCIVORUS; AGKISTRODON PISCIVORUS LEUCOSTOMA; AVES; LEUCOSTOMA; MAMMALIA; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0043071574     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2228     Document Type: Article

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