Tracking of Female Conspecific Odor Trails by Male Broad-headed Skinks (Eumeces laticeps)
โ Scribed by William E. Cooper Jr.; Laurie J. Vitt
- Book ID
- 115138921
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 398 KB
- Volume
- 71
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1439-0310
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Male broad-headed skinks, Eumeces laticeps, were tested for the ability to discriminate the odors of conspecific males from those of males of the broadly sympatric and closely related E. fasciatus, which is similar in appearance. Tongue-flicks elicited in 1 min by male cloacal odors of both species