Contrasting colors of an aposematic poison frog do not affect predation

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-38

  Hegna, Robert H ^a,d   Saporito, Ralph A ^b   Gerow, Kenneth G ^c   Donnelly, Maureen A ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; APOSEMATISM; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLOR; FROG; POISONING; PREDATION RISK; SIGNAL;

ANURA; DENDROBATES PUMILIO; DENDROBATIDAE;

EID: 79955097177     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5735/086.048.0103     Document Type: Article

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