Responses to Ophiophagous Snakes by Snakes of the Genus Thamnophis
- 21 December 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Ichthyology & Herpetology
- Vol. 1982 (4), 788-794
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1444088
Abstract
Naive garter snakes, Thamnophis (Colubridae), were tested for responses to skin chemicals from ophiophagous snakes. Thamnophis elegans emitted a significantly g...This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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