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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...
Autores principales: | Kojima, Yosuke, Fukuyama, Ibuki, Kurita, Takaki, Hossman, Mohamad Yazid Bin, Nishikawa, Kanto |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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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