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Is There An Antipredator Blood-Squirting Defense In The Bull Horned Lizard, Phrynosoma Taurus?, George Middendorf
Is There An Antipredator Blood-Squirting Defense In The Bull Horned Lizard, Phrynosoma Taurus?, George Middendorf
George Middendorf
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Responses Of Kit Foxes (Vulpes Macrotis) To Antipredator Blood-Squirting And Blood Of Texas Horned Lizards (Phrynosoma Cornutum), Wade Sherbrooke, George Middendorf, M E. Douglas
Responses Of Kit Foxes (Vulpes Macrotis) To Antipredator Blood-Squirting And Blood Of Texas Horned Lizards (Phrynosoma Cornutum), Wade Sherbrooke, George Middendorf, M E. Douglas
George Middendorf
Six related studies were conducted with four captive juvenile Kit Foxes (Vulpes macrotis) to test the hypothesis that blood-squirting from eye-socket tissues by Texas Horned Lizards (Phrynosoma cornutum) is a canid antipredator defense. In 16 trials, naive “hungry” foxes killed and ate adult Yarrow's Spiny Lizards (Sceloporus jarrovii; eight of eight trials) slightly more frequently than adult P. cornutum (six of eight trials). Adverse responses by foxes (head shaking) were seen in five of six trials in which Phrynosoma squirted blood. Later these experienced foxes, fed ad libitum, killed and ate mice (eight of eight trials) while largely ignoring P. …