Parental care in the long-tailed skink, Mabuya longicaudata, on a tropical Asian island

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 791-795

  Huang, Wen san ^a,b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EGG PRODUCTION; LIZARD; MATERNAL CARE; NEST; PARENTAL CARE; PREDATOR; RECORD; SNAKE; SURVIVAL;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LANYU; TAIWAN;

ELAPHE CARINATA; MABUYA LONGICAUDATA; OLIGODON; ORCHIDACEAE; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA;

EID: 33748582915     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.12.011     Document Type: Article

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