A day gecko darkens its body color in response to avian alarm calls

Current Herpetology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 26-33

  Ito, Ryo ^a   Ikeuchi, Isami ^a,b   Mori, Akira ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antipredator behavior; Body color change; Eavesdropping; Gekkonidae; Madagascar; Phelsuma kochi

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; GEKKONIDAE; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; PHELSUMA; SQUAMATA; TERPSIPHONE MUTATA;

EID: 84881346909     PISSN: 13455834     EISSN: 18811019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5358/hsj.32.26     Document Type: Article

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