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Mandibular sawing in a snail-eating snake

The jaws of vertebrates display a striking diversity in form and function, but they typically open and close like a trapdoor rather than sliding like a saw. Here, we report unique feeding behaviour in the blunt-headed snail-eating snake, Aplopeltura boa (family Pareidae), where the snake cuts off an...

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Autores principales: Kojima, Yosuke, Fukuyama, Ibuki, Kurita, Takaki, Hossman, Mohamad Yazid Bin, Nishikawa, Kanto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7391773/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32728121
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69436-7

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