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ArticleEcology and evolution2025

Specialist Savvy Versus Generalist Grit: Elucidating the Trade-Offs in Adaptive Dietary Ecomorphology Amongst African Green and Bush Snakes.

Hanlie M Engelbrecht, Kimberley E J Chapelle, Graham J Alexander

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Hanlie M EngelbrechtSchool of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0495-9839
Kimberley E J ChapelleDepartment of Anatomical Sciences Stony Brook University Stony Brook New York USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9991-0439
Graham J AlexanderSchool of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3991-4099

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Abstract

Kinetic feeding bones of macrostomatan Afrophidian snakes enable them to consume diverse prey types. While significant research has focused on functional feeding morphology in snakes, it often emphasizes broad taxonomic comparisons or species with distinct dietary ecologies. There is limited knowledge of how small variations in prey type composition may influence feeding morphology among closely related species sharing similar ecological niches. African Green and Bush Snakes (

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graded dietary generalizationinferred adaptationpulsed evolutionresource partitioning

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