Effective crypsis and its maintenance by immobility in Craugastor frogs

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 3, 2008, Pages 527-532

  Cooper Jr , William E ^a   Caldwell, Janalee P ^b   Vitt, Laurie J ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^b Oklahoma Museum of Natural History   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPSIS; DETECTION METHOD; FROG; IMMOBILIZATION; LOCOMOTION; PREDATION;

ANURA;

EID: 53549089888     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/CE-07-056     Document Type: Article

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