Watch out where you sleep: nocturnal sleeping behaviour of Bay Island lizards
Sleeping exposes lizards to predation. Therefore, sleeping strategies must be directed towards avoiding predation and might vary among syntopic species. We studied sleeping site characteristics of two syntopic, congeneric lizards—the Bay Island forest lizard, Coryphophylax subcristatus and the short...
Main Authors: | Nitya Prakash Mohanty, Surendran Harikrishnan, Karthikeyan Vasudevan |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2016-04-01
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Series: | PeerJ |
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Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/1856.pdf |
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