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Ritual Combat of Elaphe quadrivirgata Observed outside the Mating Season

繁殖期以外の時期に観察されたElaphe quadrivirgataの儀式的闘争

Author (1)： NISHIUMI Nozomi (Dep. of Zoology, Graduate School of Sci., Kyoto Univ.)
Material： Current Herpetology  (Curr Herpetol)
Volume： 31  Issue： 1  Page： 54-57 (J-STAGE)  Publication year： 2012 
JST Material Number： Y0249B  ISSN： 1345-5834  Document type： Article
Article type： 短報  Country of issue： Japan (JPN)  Language： ENGLISH (EN)

Thesaurus term： intraspecies competition ,  maleness ,  *stage(period) ,  *aggressive behavior ,  *Colubridae
Semi thesaurus term： *breeding period ,  *儀式的闘争 ,  *Elaphe quadrivirgata

JST classification (1)： Autecology  (EE03020H)

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Terms in the title (2)： 繁殖期 ,  観察