Good vibrations? Sibling embryos expedite hatching in a turtle

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 645-651

  Doody, J Sean ^a   Stewart, Bret ^a   Camacho, Chris ^a   Christian, Keith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carettochelys insculpta; Egg; Environmentally cued hatching; Flooding; Hypoxia; Survival; Turtle; Vibration

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; EMBRYO; EMERGENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOODING; HATCHING; HYPOXIA; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NITROGEN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RARE SPECIES; SURVIVAL; TURTLE; VIBRATION; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CARETTOCHELYS; CARETTOCHELYS INSCULPTA; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); SUIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 84857063779     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.12.006     Document Type: Article

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