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Lizards Cooperatively Tunnel to Construct a Long-Term Home for Family Members

Constructing a home to protect offspring while they mature is common in many vertebrate groups, but has not previously been reported in lizards. Here we provide the first example of a lizard that constructs a long-term home for family members, and a rare case of lizards behaving cooperatively. The g...

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Autores principales: McAlpin, Steve, Duckett, Paul, Stow, Adam
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092757/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21589923
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019041

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