A novel foraging mode in snakes: Browsing by the sea snake Emydocephalus annulatus (Serpentes, Hydrophiidae)

Functional Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 16-24

  Shine, R ^a   Bonnet, X ^a   Elphick, M J ^a   Barrott, E G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chemoreception; Movements; New Caledonia; Prey location; Prey size

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREY LOCATION; PREY SIZE; SNAKE;

MELANESIA; NEW CALEDONIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; EMYDOCEPHALUS; HYDROPHIINAE; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; TESTUDINES;

EID: 1342290149     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0269-8463.2004.00803.x     Document Type: Article

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