Tantalising tongues: male carpet pythons use chemoreception to differentiate among females
For animals sparsely distributed across a landscape, finding and identifying a receptive female during a short breeding period can be a challenge for males. Many snakes appear to rely on the production of sex-specific pheromones to synchronise the timing of reproductive behaviour. The rare Australia...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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CSIRO Publishing
2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13091 |