Comments on Guimarães & Sawaya. Pretending to be venomous: Is a snake's head shape a trustworthy signal to a predator?

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 123-124

  Valkonen, Janne K ^a   Mappes, Johanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

defence; head triangulation; mimicry; morphology; plasticine replicas; predation; snakes

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MAMMAL; MIMICRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OLFACTORY CUE; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PRESSURE EFFECT; SIGNAL; SNAKE; VENOM;

EID: 83455176143     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: 14697831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467411000575     Document Type: Short Survey

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