To avoid or not to avoid? Factors influencing the discrimination of predator diet cues by a terrestrial salamander

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1425-1433

  Sullivan, Aaron M ^a,b   Picard, Amy L ^a,c   Madison, Dale M ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOUGHTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CUE; DIET; EVOLUTION; PREDATION RISK; RELATEDNESS;

ACCIPITRINAE; AMPHIUMA MEANS; CAUDATA; EURYCEA BISLINEATA; PLETHODON CINEREUS; SERPENTES; THAMNOPHIS SIRTALIS;

EID: 20444424625     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.08.017     Document Type: Article

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