Lateralized visual and motor responses in the green tree frog, Litoria caerulea

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 843-852

  Robins, Andrew ^a   Rogers, Lesley J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EYE; FROG; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; LIMB; LOCOMOTION; TOAD; VISUAL CUE;

ANURA; BUFONIDAE; HYLIDAE; LITORIA CAERULEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33748634083     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.01.022     Document Type: Article

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