Feeding experience modifies the assessment of ambush sites by the timber rattlesnake, a sit-and-wait predator

Ethology

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 471-483

  Clark, Rulon W ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CUE; PREDATOR; PREY LOCATION; PREY SELECTION; SNAKE;

AMPHIBIA; CROTALUS; CROTALUS HORRIDUS; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; SERPENTES;

EID: 3042819812     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2004.00982.x     Document Type: Article

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