Antipredator responses by Texas Horned Lizards to two snake taxa with different foraging and subjugation strategies

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 145-152

  Sherbrooke, Wade C ^a,b  

^a Southwestern Research Station   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROTALUS; CROTALUS ATROX; MASTICOPHIS; PHRYNOSOMA; PHRYNOSOMA CORNUTUM; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA;

EID: 40549089188     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1670/07-072R1.1     Document Type: Article

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