title: Response of brown treesnakes (Boiga irregularis) to mammalian blood: whole blood, serum, and cellular residue.
abstract: Brown treesnakes (Boiga irregularis) responded with more tongue flicks to blood (from rabbits, rats, and mice) than to water. When rat blood was centrifuged at 3,500 rpm for 5 min, separating serum from cellular residue, snakes responded strongly to serum but not to cellular residue.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder 80309-0345, USA. chiszar@clipr.colorado.edu
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chiszar
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Dunn
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stark
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001769:Blood; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D051379:Mice; D009068:Movement; D011817:Rabbits; D051381:Rats; D012911:Snakes / Q000502:physiology*; D014059:Tongue / Q000502:physiology