Movement- and attack-based indices of foraging mode and ambush foraging in some gekkonid and agamine lizards from southern Africa

Amphibia Reptilia

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 391-399

  Cooper Jr , William E ^a   Whiting, Martin J ^b,c   Van Wyk, Johannes H ^b   Mouton, P Le F N ^b  

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

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c Transvaal Museum   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LIZARD; MOVEMENT; PREY CAPTURE;

(SOUTHERN); AFRICA;

AGAMA; GEKKONIDAE; PACHYDACTYLUS; PHYLLODACTYLUS; RHOTROPUS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0343776178     PISSN: 01735373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853899507149     Document Type: Article

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