Blue tail and striped body: why do lizards change their infant costume when growing up?

By D. Hawlena, Rami Boochnik, Z. Abramsky, Amos Bouskila. 2006

100 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/89f1740af2caaa24899a139dbbcb3d80274f134b

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Patricia A. Fleming
2. S. Blair Hedges
3. Philip W. Bateman

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Caitlin E. Conn
2. Patricia A. Fleming
3. S. Blair Hedges
4. Philip W. Bateman

Citations in the corpus

• To cut a long tail short: a review of lizard caudal autotomy studies carried out over the last 20 years (2009, background): “Another lacertid, Mesalina guttulata, found in the same habitat does not show an age-related dichromatism, but also shows no age-related differences in foraging behaviour (Hawlena et al., 2006).”
• A new skink fauna from Caribbean islands (Squamata, Mabuyidae, Mabuyinae) (2012, background): “Stripes are common in animal coloration, providing crypsis, and the consensus on blue tails in lizards is that they have an antipredator function, drawing attention away from the head (Cooper 1985; Hawlena et al. 2006; Bateman & Fleming 2008).”