Stimulus control of lingual predatory luring and related foraging tactics of mangrove saltmarsh snakes (nerodia clarkii compressicauda)

Knowledge of the various cues that elicit natural behavior is important to our understanding of why and when animals behave as they do. In order to gain insight into the behavior and ecology of Nerodia clarkii compressicauda, a piscivorous snake that uses a unique form of predatory luring as a foraging tactic, we observed 22 […]