Food transport in Reptilia: a comparative viewpoint

V Bels, G Le Floch, F Kirchhoff… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Reptilia exploit a large diversity of food resources from plant materials to living mobile prey.
They are among the first tetrapods that needed to drink to maintain their water homeostasis …

Evolution of snake skin: Role of cutaneous tactile corpuscles in Hierophis viridiflavus (Lacépède, 1789)

A Alesci, S Marino, D Di Fresco, A Miller… - Acta …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The skin of snakes acts as the first interface between these reptiles and the environment
they live in. It plays an important role in the ecology of these organisms, and specialised …

Repertoire of food acquisition behaviors in Western Palearctic shorebirds (Aves, Charadriiformes)

M Baguette, G Le Floch, L Hannier, F Kirchhoff… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Shorebirds are iconic examples of food resource partitioning through use of contrasted
morphological structures to acquire food. Differences in beak lengths and shapes allow …

Repertoire of Food Acquisition Behaviors in Shorebirds (Aves, Charadriiforme)

M Baguette, L Hannier, F Kirchhoff, G Le Floch… - 2023 - preprints.org
Shorebirds are iconic examples of food resource partitioning through use of contrasted
morphological structures to acquire food. Differences in beak lengths and shapes allow …