Heat, sight and scent: multiple cues influence foraging site selection by an ambush-foraging snake Hoplocephalus bungaroides (Elapidae)

Most mobile organisms respond to multiple cues when selecting habitat types, and laboratory experiments that manipulate only single cues may fail to reveal the true complexity of habitat-selection behaviour. In south-eastern Australia, broad-headed snakes Hoplocephalus bungaroides (Elapidae) lie in...

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Main Author: Weiguo DU, Jonathan K. WEBB, Richard SHINE
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2009-08-01
Series:Current Zoology
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Online Access:http://www.currentzoology.org/paperdetail.asp?id=11224