How snakes eat snakes: The biomechanical challenges of ophiophagy for the California kingsnake, Lampropeltis getula californiae (Serpentes: Colubridae)

Zoology

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 191-200

  Jackson, Kate ^a   Kley, Nathan J ^b   Brainerd, Elizabeth L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Feeding mechanism; Ophiophagy; Pterygoid walk; Regurgitation; Swallowing

Indexed keywords

COLUBRIDAE; ELAPHE; ELAPHE GUTTATA; LAMPROPELTIS; LAMPROPELTIS GETULA; LAMPROPELTIS GETULA CALIFORNIAE; PANTHEROPHIS GUTTATUS; SERPENTES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 4444256973     PISSN: 09442006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.zool.2004.06.001     Document Type: Article

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