Foraging mode in the African cordylids and plasticity of foraging behavior in Platysaurus broadleyi

Lizard Ecology: The Evolutionary Consequences of Foraging Mode

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 405-426

  Whiting, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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EID: 63049107927     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511752438.015     Document Type: Chapter

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