[图书][B] The secret social lives of reptiles

JS Doody, V Dinets, GM Burghardt - 2021 - books.google.com
Covering diverse species from garter snakes to Komodo dragons, this book delves into the
evolutionary origins and fascinating details of the mysterious social lives of reptiles. Reptiles …

Changing patterns of nest predation and predator communities along a tropical elevation gradient

GA Londoño, JP Gomez, MA Sánchez‐Martínez… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical montane communities host the world's highest beta diversity of birds, a
phenomenon usually attributed to community turnover caused by changes in biotic and …

[PDF][PDF] Feeding ecology of a generalist predator, the California kingsnake (Lampropeltis californiae): why rare prey matter

KD Wiseman, HW Greene, MS Koo… - Herpetological …, 2019 - academia.edu
We studied the feeding ecology of California Kingsnakes (Lampropeltis californiae) based
on stomach contents of 2,662 museum specimens, 90 published records, and 92 …

Effects of early social isolation on the behaviour and performance of juvenile lizards, Chamaeleo calyptratus

C Ballen, R Shine, M Olsson - Animal Behaviour, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•Early social interactions affect a lizard's subsequent social responses.•Those
reared in isolation express different colours to those reared in groups.•Group-reared animals …

Loss of sea turtle eggs drives the collapse of an insular reptile community

JW Lin, CP Liao, CC Chou, RW Clark, HY Tseng… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Marine subsidies are vital for terrestrial ecosystems, especially low-productivity islands.
However, the impact of losing these subsidies on the terrestrial food web can be difficult to …

Surf and turf: predation by egg-eating snakes has led to the evolution of parental care in a terrestrial lizard

DA Pike, RW Clark, A Manica, HY Tseng, JY Hsu… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Animals display a great diversity of parental care tactics that ultimately enhance offspring
survival, but how such behaviors evolve remains unknown for most systems. Here, we …

Eviscerated alive: Novel and macabre feeding strategy in Oligodon fasciolatus (Günther, 1864) eating organs of Duttaphrynus melanostictus (Schneider, 1799) in …

H Bringsøe, M Suthanthangjai… - …, 2020 - herpetozoa.pensoft.net
A hitherto unknown feeding mode among snakes is described for the colubrid snake
Oligodon fasciolatus in Northeast Thailand. Three cases of O. fasciolatus using enlarged …

Non-breeding territoriality and the effect of territory size on aggression in the weakly electric fish, Gymnotus omarorum

R Perrone, F Pedraja, G Valiño, B Tassino, A Silva - acta ethologica, 2019 - Springer
Agonistic behavior involves the displays that arise when conspecifics compete for valuable
resources such as territory. After conflict resolution, dominants obtain priority access to the …

[PDF][PDF] Oligodon saiyok, a new limestone-dwelling kukri snake (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Kanchanaburi Province, western Thailand

M Sumontha, K Kunya, S Dangsri, OSG Pauwels - Zootaxa, 2017 - researchgate.net
We describe Oligodon saiyok sp. nov. from Benjarat Nakhon Cave Temple, Sai Yok District,
Kanchanaburi Province, western Thailand. It is characterized by a maximal known SVL of …

Predation drives interpopulation differences in parental care expression

WS Huang, SM Lin, S Dubey… - Journal of Animal …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Expressing parental care after oviposition or parturition is usually an obligate (evolved) trait
within a species, despite evolutionary theory predicting that widespread species should vary …