Behavioral variation in natural populations. VI. prey responses by two species of garter snakes
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A comparative study on two species of garter snakes indicated that difference in chemoreceptive responses are related to differences in dietary pattern. Thamnophis elegans and Thamnophis sirtalis were studied in three natural environments where the two species occur in sympatry. T. sirtalis was found to prey on anurans at all the three sites, while T. elegans fed on slugs at two of the three sites. Chemoreceptive responses of newborn snakes at a particular locality highlighted litter differences within species.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1992
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Consistency of individual differences in anti-predator behaviour and colour pattern in the garter snake, Thamnophis ordinoides
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The study of different aspects of ontogenetic change that occur in garter snakes reveals physiological and psychological changes associated with growth. The stamina and flight reversal exhibited by garter snakes during a study of their escape behavior in the laboratory and in the wild showed consistent individual differences in anti-predator behavior and color patterns in the first two years of life.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1993
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Behavioral variation in natural populations: VII. maternal body temperature does not affect juvenile thermoregulation in a garter snake
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Garter snakes showed no sexual differences in thermoregulation in hatching crocodilians and were in the posture characteristic of thermoregulating snakes on more than 95% occasions for recording body temperatures as revealed by the analysis of juvenile garter snakes to study the effects of pre-natal thermoregulation. Conventional body temperature regulation was shown by all the snakes.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1995
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