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Absence of Discriminatory Tongue-Flicking Responses to Plant Chemicals by Helodermatid Lizards

Adjusting Prey Handling Times and Methods Affects Profitability in the Broad-Headed Skink (Eumeces laticeps)

scientific article published in December 2006

Age affects escape behavior by the zebra-tailed lizard (Callisaurus draconoides) more strongly than in other lizards

scientific article published in 2015

Aggregation in the Banded Gecko, Coleonyx variegatus

Ambush and Active Foraging Modes Both Occur in the Scincid GenusMabuya

scientific article published in January 2000

Antipredatory Threat Displays and Aggressive Defenses by the Acrodont Lizard Uromastyx aegyptius (Acrodonta: Agamidae: Uromasticinae) when Cornered and in Crevices ⬇️

Behavioral responses to plant toxins by two omnivorous lizard species.

scientific article published in June 2002

Behavioural responses by hatchling racers (Coluber constrictor) from two geographically distinct populations to chemical stimuli from potential prey and predators

scholarly article by Gordon Burghardt et al published 2000 in Amphibia-Reptilia

Beyond optimal escape theory: microhabitats as well as predation risk affect escape and refuge use by the phrynosomatid lizard Sceloporus virgatus

scientific article published in 2007

Caudal autotomy in the Eastern garter snake, Thamnophis S. sirtalis

Chemosensory responses to foods by an herbivorous acrodont lizard, Uromastyx aegyptius

scientific article published in 2002

Cloacal Anatomy of the Broad-Headed Skink, Eumeces laticeps, with a Description of a Female Pheromonal Gland

scientific article published in 1987

Corrigendum to ‘Escape behavior: dynamic decisions and a growing consensus’ [Curr. Opin. Behav. Sci. 12 (2016) 24–29]

article

Descriptions of Five Species of Vespertilio that inhabit the Environs of the City of New-York

scientific article published in 2009

Discrimination of Conspecific Male and Female Cloacal Chemical Stimuli by Males and Possession of a Probable Pheromone Gland by Females in a Cordylid Lizard, Gerrhosaurus nigrolineatus

Do lingual behaviors and locomotion by two gekkotan lizards after experimental loss of bitten prey indicate chemosensory search?

Duration of Movement as a Lizard Foraging Movement Variable

scientific article published in December 2005

Effective Crypsis and Its Maintenance by Immobility in Craugastor Frogs

scientific article published on 10 September 2008

Effects of predation risk factors on escape behavior by Balearic lizards (Podarcis lilfordi) in relation to optimal escape theory

scientific article published in 2009

Effects of refuge and conspicuousness on escape behavior by the broad-headed skink (Eumeces laticeps)

Elevated tongue-flicking rate to cricket surface chemicals by the arthropodivorous rough green snake Opheodrys aestivus

scientific article published in 2007

Escape Decisions by the Syntopic Congeners Sceloporus jarrovii and S. virgatus: Comparative Effects of Perch Height and of Predator Approach Speed, Persistence, and Direction of Turning

article

Escape behavior: dynamic decisions and a growing consensus

article

Escape by the Balearic Lizard (Podarcis lilfordi) is affected by elevation of an approaching predator, but not by some other potential predation risk factors ⬇️

scientific article published on 22 December 2011

Escape tactics and effects of perch height and habituation on flight initiation distance in two Jamaican anoles (Squamata: polychrotidae).

scientific article published in December 2010

Estrogenic Priming of Color Change Induced by Progesterone in the Collared Lizard, Crotaphytus collaris

article by William E Cooper & Gary W Ferguson published 1973 in Herpetologica

FEAR, Spontaneity, and Artifact in Economic Escape Theory: A Review and Prospectus

article

Factors Affecting Risk and Cost of Escape by the Broad-Headed Skink (Eumeces laticeps): Predator Speed, Directness of Approach, and Female Presence

Feeding Responses of Skinks (Eumeces laticeps) to Velvet Ants (Dasymutilla occidentalis)

article

Female Sex Pheromone in the Lizard Eumeces laticeps

scientific article published in 1986

Fifty years of chasing lizards: new insights advance optimal escape theory

scientific article

Fleeing to refuge: Escape decisions in the race for life.

scientific article published on 23 June 2016

Food Chemical Discriminations by the Omnivorous Scincid Lizards Tiliqua scincoides and Tiliqua rugosa

scientific article published in 2000

Foraging Modes of Some American Lizards: Relationships among Measurement Variables and Discreteness of Modes

scientific article published in 2001

Foraging mode and evolution of strike-induced chemosensory searching in lizards

scientific article (publication date: April 2003)

Foraging modes in lacertid lizards from southern Africa

article

Habitat Structural Complexity and the Interaction Between Bluegills and Their Prey

scientific article published on 09 May 2006

History and the global ecology of squamate reptiles

scientific article

Incompletely Protective Refuges: Selection and Associated Defences by a Lizard, Cordylus cordylus (Squamata: Cordylidae)

scientific article published in 1999

Independent evolution of squamate olfaction and vomerolfaction and correlated evolution of vomerolfaction and lingual structure

Influence of Risk on Hiding Time by Balearic Lizards (Podarcis lilfordi): Predator Approach Speed, Directness, Persistence, and Proximity

scientific article published in June 2010

Initiation of Escape Behavior by the Texas Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum)

article

Intraspecific and Interspecific Aggression in Lizards of the Scincid Genus Eumeces: Chemical Detection of Conspecific Sexual Competitors

Investigations of Pheromonal Discrimination between Conspecific Individuals by Male and Female Leopard Geckos (Eublepharis macularius)

Island tameness: living on islands reduces flight initiation distance

scientific article (publication date: 22 February 2014)

Islands in a sea of sand: use of Acacia trees by tree skinks in the Kalahari Desert

article

Kleptoparasitism in the Balearic lizard, Podarcis lilfordi

scientific article published in 2003

Latency to flee from an immobile predator: effects of predation risk and cost of immobility for the prey

article

Lingual and biting responses to selected lipids by the lizard Podarcis lilfordi.

scientific article published in February 2002

Lingually Mediated Discriminations among Prey Chemicals and Control Stimuli in Cordyliform Lizards: Presence in a Gerrhosaurid and Absence in Two Cordylids

Lingually mediated discrimination of prey, but not plant chemicals, by the Central American anguid lizard, Mesaspis moreletii

Lizard Antipredatory Behaviors Preventing Extraction from Crevices

scientific article published in 2000

Male sex steroids and hormonal control of male courtship behavior in the yellow-bellied slider turtle, Trachemys scripta

article

Maximizing male reproductive success in the broad-headed skink (Eumeces laticeps): preliminary evidence for mate guarding, size-assortative pairing, and opportunistic extra-pair mating

Movement and Substrate Tongue Flicks in Phrynosomatid Lizards

scientific article published in February 1994

Movement- and attack-based indices of foraging mode and ambush foraging in some gekkonid and agamine lizards from southern Africa

article

Observations on activity, display behavior, coloration and androgen levels in the keeled earless lizard, Holbrookia propinqua

scientific article published in 1991

Optimal flight initiation distance

scientific article published on 21 July 2006

Orange Head Coloration of the Male Broad-Headed Skink (Eumeces laticeps), a Sexually Selected Social Cue

scientific article published on 5 February 1988

Pheromonal Detection and Sex Discrimination of Conspecific Substrate Deposits by the Rock-Dwelling Cordylid Lizard Cordylus cordylus

scientific article published on 27 December 1996

Pheromonal discriminations of sex, reproductive condition, and species by the lacertid lizard Podarcis hispanica

scientific article published in May 2002

Plant chemical discriminations by an herbivorous iguanid lizard, Sauromalus ater

Post-bite Elevation in Tongue-flick Rate by Neonatal Garter Snakes (Thamnophis radix)

scientific article published on 09 May 2010

Predator lethality, optimal escape behavior, and autotomy

article

Predator–prey distance and latency to flee from an immobile predator: functional relationship and importance.

scientific article published on 26 March 2016

Preliminary reconstructions of nasal chemosensory evolution in Squamata

Presence and Effect of Defensiveness or Context on Detectability of Prey Chemical Discrimination in the Lizard Xenosaurus platyceps

Prey Chemical Discrimination in the Lizard Eugongylus albofasciolatus and Its Distribution in Scincidae ⬇️

Prey Chemicals do not Affect Giving-Up Time at Ambush Posts by the Cordylid Lizard Platysaurus broadleyi

article

Prey Odor Detection by Teiid and Lacertid Lizards and the Relationship of Prey Odor Detection to Foraging Mode in Lizard Families

scientific article published on 6 March 1990

Prey Odor Discrimination and Poststrike Elevation in Tongue Flicking by a Cordylid Lizard, Gerrhosaurus nigrolineatus

Prey chemical discrimination by a diploglossine lizard, the giant Hispaniolan galliwasp (Celestus warreni)

scientific article published in 2009

Prey, but not plant, chemical discrimination by the lizard Gerrhosaurus nigrolineatus

journal article; published in African Zoology in 2001

Progesterone induces bright orange throat coloration in female Petrosaurus mearnsi

Pursuit deterrence, predation risk, and escape in the lizard Callisaurus draconoides

scientific article published in 2011

Relative Effectiveness of Progesterone and Testosterone as Inductors of Orange Spotting in Female Collared Lizards

Responses to major categories of food chemicals by the lizard Podarcis lilfordi

scientific article published in April 2002

Responses to prey and plant chemicals by three iguanian lizards: relationship to plants in the diet

scientific article published in 2001

Risk factors affecting escape behavior by the Jamaican lizard<i>Anolis lineatopus</i>(Polychrotidae, Squamata)

scientific article published on 04 January 2016

Risk, Escape from Ambush, and Hiding Time in the LizardSceloporus virgatus

scientific article published in December 2012

SIMULTANEOUS RISKS AND DIFFERENCES AMONG INDIVIDUAL PREDATORS AFFECT REFUGE USE BY A LIZARD, LACERTA MONTICOLA

Sex differences in lizard escape decisions vary with latitude, but not sexual dimorphism

scientific article published in April 2015

Sex, Age, and Population Density Affect Aggressive Behaviors in Island Lizards Promoting Cannibalism

scientific article published on 10 November 2014

Spatial Distribution and Activity Patterns in African Barking Geckos: Implications for Mating System and Reproduction

article

Stop-and-go approach by a predator: a novel predation risk factor for the phrynosomatid lizards Sceloporus virgatus and Callisaurus draconoides

scientific article published in 2015

Strike-Induced Chemosensory Searching in the Gila Monster

scientific article published on 15 February 1995

Strike-induced Chemosensory Searching in the Colubrid Snakes Elaphe g. guttata and Thamnophis sirtalis

scientific article (publication date: 26 April 2010)

Strike-induced chemosensory searching by the anguid lizard Elgaria coerulea

Strike-induced chemosensory searching is absent in Anolis carolinensis

Supplementation of Phylogenetically Correct Data by Two-Species Comparison: Support for Correlated Evolution of Foraging Mode and Prey Chemical Discrimination in Lizards Extended by First Intrageneric Evidence

scientific article published in 1999

Tandem evolution of diet and chemosensory responses in snakes

scientific article published in 2008

Tasty figs and tasteless flies: plant chemical discrimination but no prey chemical discrimination in the cordylid lizard Platysaurus broadleyi

article

The Relationship between Reproduction and Lipid Cycling in the Skink Eumeces laticeps with Comments on Brooding Ecology

The flush early and avoid the rush hypothesis holds after accounting for spontaneous behavior

article

Thermal Cost of Refuge Use Affects Refuge Entry and Hiding Time by Striped Plateau Lizards Sceloporus virgatus

scientific article published in December 2008

Threat Factors Affecting Antipredatory Behavior in the Broad-Headed Skink (Eumeces laticeps): Repeated Approach, Change in Predator Path, and Predator's Field of View

Tradeoffs Between Escape Behavior and Foraging Opportunity by the Balearic Lizard (Podarcis lilfordi)

scientific article published in September 2004

Tree selection by the broad-headed skink, Eumeces laticeps: size, holes, and cover

Universal Optimization of Flight Initiation Distance and Habitat-Driven Variation in Escape Tactics in a Namibian Lizard Assemblage

article

When to Come Out from a Refuge: Balancing Predation Risk and Foraging Opportunities in an Alpine Lizard

article

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