Can wall lizards combine chemical and visual cues to discriminate predatory from non-predatory snakes inside refuges?

Ethology

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 478-484

  Amo, Luisa ^a   López, Pilar ^a   Martín, José ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; LIZARD; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREDICTION; REFUGE; SNAKE; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PODARCIS; PODARCIS MURALIS; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; VIPERINAE;

EID: 33645872374     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2005.01170.x     Document Type: Article

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