What makes some species of milk snakes more attractive to humans than others?

Theory in Biosciences

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 227-235

  Marešová, Jana ^a   Landová, Eva ^a   Frynta, Daniel ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Aesthetic preferences; Aposematic signal; Categorization; Human cognition; Lampropeltis; Mimicry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR; ESTHETICS; GENUS; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SNAKE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BEAUTY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COGNITION; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLUBRIDAE; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SKIN;

ANIMALIA; LAMPROPELTIS; PRIMATES; SERPENTES;

EID: 71949093848     PISSN: 14317613     EISSN: 16117530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12064-009-0075-y     Document Type: Article

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