Experimental validation of sex differences in spatial behavior patterns of free-ranging snakes: Implications for social interactions

Ethology

Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 852-858

  Roth, Eric D ^a   Lutterschmidt, William I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b Sam Houston State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE POPULATION; CONSPECIFIC; DISPERSION; DIVERGENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PISCIVORY; RADIOTELEMETRY; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SNAKE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPACE USE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

AGKISTRODON; AGKISTRODON PISCIVORUS; AGKISTRODON PISCIVORUS LEUCOSTOMA; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80052721313     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01938.x     Document Type: Article

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