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Prairie rattlesnakes (Crotalus viridis) exhibited a sustained high rate of tongue flicking after a predatory strike whether or not rodent odors were present in the poststrike environment. For the lizard specialist, C. pricei, strike-induced chemosensory searching was maintained at a high level only when chemical cues were available following the strike.
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This work was completed while K. Kandler was an exchange student at the University of Colorado from Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Federal Republic of Germany.
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Cruz, E., Gibson, S., Kandler, K. et al. Strike-induced chemosensory searching in rattlesnakes: A rodent specialist (Crotalus viridis) differs from a lizard specialist (Crotalus pricei). Bull. Psychon. Soc. 25, 136–138 (1987). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330307
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