Chemosensory cues associated with snake predators affect locomotor activity and tongue flick rate in the whiptail lizard, aspidoscelis dixoni scudday 1973 (squamata teiidae)

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 225-235

  Punzo, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspidoscelis dixoni; Chemosensory cues; Predator avoidance; Whiptail lizards

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CUE; LIZARD; LOCOMOTION; PREDATOR; SENSORY SYSTEM; SNAKE;

ARIZONA ELEGANS; ASPIDOSCELIS; COLUBER FLAGELLUM; LEPTOTYPHLOPS HUMILIS SEGREGUS; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; TEIIDAE;

EID: 35548967643     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.2007.9522564     Document Type: Article

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