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... snakes find something else to eat , primarily fish and frogs , which they capture while swimming in lakes and streams . But will snakes from inland locations eat slugs if they are given the opportunity ? One could present slugs to adult ...
... snakes find something else to eat , primarily fish and frogs , which they capture while swimming in lakes and streams . But will snakes from inland locations eat slugs if they are given the opportunity ? One could present slugs to adult ...
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... snake's cage . Naive young coastal snakes usually ate all the slug hors d'oeuvres they received ; inland snakes usually did not ( Figure 13 ) . In both populations , slug - refusing snakes did not even make contact with the slug food ...
... snake's cage . Naive young coastal snakes usually ate all the slug hors d'oeuvres they received ; inland snakes usually did not ( Figure 13 ) . In both populations , slug - refusing snakes did not even make contact with the slug food ...
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... snakes have the allele or alleles that enable them to sense slugs and attack them . In contrast , snakes of the inland population have alter- native alleles that result in a low rate of tongue flicking and a low attack probability when ...
... snakes have the allele or alleles that enable them to sense slugs and attack them . In contrast , snakes of the inland population have alter- native alleles that result in a low rate of tongue flicking and a low attack probability when ...
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NATURAL SELECTION | 5 |
Alternative Hypotheses | 11 |
Experimental Tests of Evolutionary Predictions | 17 |
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