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Full-Text Articles in Life Sciences
The Use Of Crab Meal As A Supplemental Food For Juvenile Hard Clams (Mercenaria Mercenaria), Patricia Lynn Duncan
The Use Of Crab Meal As A Supplemental Food For Juvenile Hard Clams (Mercenaria Mercenaria), Patricia Lynn Duncan
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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The Hold-Release Mechanism In The Family Crotalidae, Ronald K. Easter
The Hold-Release Mechanism In The Family Crotalidae, Ronald K. Easter
Masters Theses
Strike/release vs. strike/hold feeding behavior was observed for 5 Crotalus atrox and 5 Agkistrodon piscivorous. Two sizes of warm blooded prey were offered to the rattlesnakes on alternate weeks. Cottonmouths were offered, alternately, fish or mice of equal size. Although data varied among individual subjects, cottonmouths offered fish demonstrated the strike/hold behavior significantly more often than the strike/release behavior; cottonmouths offered mice struck and released significantly more often than they struck and held. It is concluded that the strike/hold strategy in sreponse to fish is adventageous because the danger of holding such prey is minimal and the release of …