When to run from an ambush predator: balancing crypsis benefits with costs of fleeing in lizards

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1011-1018

  Martín, José ^a   Luque Larena, Juan José ^b   López, Pilar ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

antipredator behaviour; crypsis; escape decision; hiding decision; Iberolacerta cyreni; predation risk; rock lizard

Indexed keywords

COST; CRYPSIS; LIZARD; PREDATOR;

IBEROLACERTA CYRENI; PETROSAURUS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 70349166283     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.07.026     Document Type: Article

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