Northern Pacific rattlesnakes (Crotalus viridis oreganus) meter venom when feeding on prey of different sizes

WK Hayes, P Lavín-Murcio, KV Kardong - Copeia, 1995 - JSTOR
… whether northern Pacific rattlesnakes (Crotalus viridis oreganus) inject more venom into
larger prey than into smaller prey. Medium-sized and large rattlesnakes were videotaped as …

Diet and Feeding Ecology of the Red Diamond Rattlesnake, Crotalus ruber (Serpentes: Viperidae)

EA Dugan, WK Hayes - Herpetologica, 2012 - meridian.allenpress.com
Foraging tactics used for capturing lizard prey are less well understood for rattlesnakes. If
lizard capture similarly involves ambush, it would be difficult to distinguish tactics used to …

Feeding ecology of the Great Basin rattlesnake (Crotalus lutosus, Viperidae)

X Glaudas, T Jezkova… - Canadian Journal of …, 2008 - cdnsciencepub.com
… predators (eg, boas, pythons, and vipers, including rattlesnakes) generally consume fewer
but relatively larger items than active foragers (eg, cobras, racers), which actively investigate …

The effects of temperature on the defensive strikes of rattlesnakes

MD Whitford, GA Freymiller… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.biologists.com
… families is likely attributable to the very divergent foraging behaviors and morphologies
between these groups. The relatively sessile behaviors and stout bodies of vipers contrast starkly …

Experimentally altered navigational demands induce changes in the cortical forebrain of free-ranging Northern Pacific Rattlesnakes (Crotalus o. oreganus)

ML Holding, JA Frazier, EN Taylor… - Brain Behavior and …, 2012 - karger.com
… This study sought to experimentally manipulate the navigational demands placed on free-ranging
northern Pacific rattlesnakes (Crotalus o. oreganus) to provide direct evidence of the …

Movement, Home Range Size, and Habitat Use of Eastern Black-Tailed Rattlesnakes (Crotalus ornatus) in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert

JD Emerson, DL DeSantis, V Mata-Silva… - …, 2022 - meridian.allenpress.com
… to rattlesnakes at IMRS. It is assumed that habitats most often inhabited by rattlesnakes
contain … Although observations of foraging and feeding behavior were limited during this study, …

Spatial Ecology and Factors Influencing Movement Patterns of Desert Massasauga Rattlesnakes (Sistrurus catenatus edwardsii) in Southeastern Colorado

AR Wastell, SP Mackessy - Copeia, 2011 - meridian.allenpress.com
The Massasauga Rattlesnake (Sistrurus catenatus) occurs from extreme southeastern Canada
to northern Mexico, and most populations are highly threatened due to habitat loss and …

Discrimination between envenomated and nonenvenomated prey by western diamondback rattlesnakes (Crotalus atrox): chemosensory consequences of venom

D Chiszar, A Walters, J Urbaniak, HM Smith… - Copeia, 1999 - JSTOR
foraging behavior consists of pheromone-like compounds applied to food (or territories or
mates) by foragers, … Venom ontogeny in the pacific rattlesnakes Crotalus viridis helleri and C. v. …

Strike‐induced chemosensory searching (SICS) in northern Pacific rattlesnakes (Crotalus viridis oreganus, Holbrook, 1840) rescued from substandard husbandry …

D Chiszar, K DeWelde, M Garcia… - … Biology: Published in …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
… Substandard husbandry and neglect can be conceptualized as providing such an environment
with respect to an animal’s foraging behaviors. Many other aspects of stress might also …

[PDF][PDF] Behavioral changes by Mohave rattlesnakes (Crotalus scutulatus) in response to drought

MD Cardwell - 2013 - scholars.csus.edu
… produce a significant difference in mean daily growth (ANCOVA, p = 0.344; MDC in press),
which is presumed to be a good analog for foraging success and, thus, for foraging behavior. …