Eyes bigger than stomach: Prey caching and retrieval in the saltwater crocodile, crocodylus porosus

Herpetological Review

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 26-29

  Sean Doody, J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; CROCODYLUS POROSUS;

EID: 77953835920     PISSN: 0018084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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