Responses of kit foxes (Vulpes macrotis) to antipredator blood-squirting and blood of Texas Horned Lizards (Phrynosoma cornutum)

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 3, 2004, Pages 652-658

  Sherbrooke, Wade C ^a,c   Middendorf III, George A ^b  

^a Southwestern Research Station   (United States)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; AVOIDANCE REACTION; CANID; LEARNING; LIZARD; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY PREFERENCE;

ACHILLEA; CANIDAE; FORMICIDAE; MACROTIS; PHRYNOSOMA; PHRYNOSOMA CORNUTUM; SCELOPORUS; SCELOPORUS JARROVI; SCELOPORUS JARROVII; SQUAMATA; VULPES; VULPES MACROTIS;

EID: 4444267781     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/CH-03-157R1     Document Type: Article

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