Western diamond-backed rattlesnakes, Crotalus atrox (Serpentes: Viperidae), gain water by harvesting and drinking rain, sleet, and snow

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 108-114

  Repp, Roger A ^a   Schuett, Gordon W ^b  

^a NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIZONA (SNAKE); CROTALUS; CROTALUS ATROX; SERPENTES; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 41149107502     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909(2008)53[108:WDRCAS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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