Skilled forelimb movements and extractive foraging in the Arboreal monitor lizard varanus beccarii (Doria, 1874)

Herpetological Review

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 343-349

  Mendyk, Robert W ^a,b   Horn, Hans Georg ^c  

^a Center for Science Teaching and Learning   (United States)

^b Center for Herpetological Education and Inquiry   (United States)

^c Monitor Lizards Research Station   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SQUAMATA; VARANUS;

EID: 84858172842     PISSN: 0018084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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