Blue tail and striped body: Why do lizards change their infant costume when growing up?

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 889-896

  Hawlena, Dror ^a,b   Boochnik, Rami ^a   Abramsky, Zvika ^a   Bouskila, Amos ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Israel Nature and Parks Authority and Israel Electric Corporation   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acanthodactylus beershebensis; Antipredatory behavior; Autotomy; Foraging activity; Ontogeny

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HATCHING; LIZARD; ONTOGENY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR;

ACANTHODACTYLUS; AMPHIBIA; LACERTIDAE; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 33749522321     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arl023     Document Type: Article

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