Fixed videography to study predation behavior of an ambush foraging snake, Crotalus horridus

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 2, 2006, Pages 181-187

  Clark, Rulon W ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY CAPTURE; SNAKE; VIDEOGRAPHY;

CLETHRIONOMYS; CRICETIDAE; CROTALUS HORRIDUS; MICROTUS; PEROMYSCUS; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS; SERPENTES; TAMIAS;

EID: 33744802615     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2006)6[181:FVTSPB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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