ArticleFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2023
Using natricine snakes to test how prey type and size affect predatory behaviors and performance.
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- Hard to Swallow: Scaling Relationships Between the Size of Avian Prey and the Overall Size and Maximal Gape of Brown Treesnakes.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Using mangrove and field observation data to identify fine-scale species distributions: a case study in bockadams (Serpentes: Homalopsidae:Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Comparative morphology of oral glands in snakes of the family Homalopsidae reveals substantial variation and additional independent origins of salt glands within Serpentes.Journal of anatomy · 2024Article
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Abstract
Introduction: Predation is a complex process for which behavior, morphology, and size of both predator and prey can affect the success and effectiveness of the predator. For predators such as snakes that swallow prey whole, gape ultimately limits prey size, but the behaviors used to select, capture, and consume prey and attributes of the prey can also affect maximal prey size. For example, swallowing live, struggling prey is difficult, but using coiling or envenomation to restrain or kill prey has evolved repeatedly in snakes. Methods: To test the potential benefits of these behaviors, we manipulated the type and size of prey, and determined how stereotyped predatory behavior was in a snake species ( Results: For Discussion: Our findings for the
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