An experimental test of snake skin use to deter nest predation

Condor

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 963-965

  Medlin, Elizabeth C ^a   Risch, Thomas S ^a  

^a ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial nest; Glaucomys volans; Great crested flycatcher; Myiarchus crinitus; Nest predation; Snake skin use; Southern flying squirrel

Indexed keywords

AVES; GLAUCOMYS VOLANS; MAMMALIA; MYIARCHUS CRINITUS; PANTHEROPHIS OBSOLETUS; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 33845205515     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2006)108[963:AETOSS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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