Movement patterns and habitat use for the sympatric species: Gambelia wislizenii and Aspidoscelis tigris.

ABSTRACT: Movement is an important characteristic of an animal's ecology, reflecting the perception of and response to environmental conditions. To effectively search for food, movement patterns likely depend on habitat characteristics and the sensory systems used to find prey. We examined movements associated with foraging for two sympatric species of lizards inhabiting the Great Basin Desert of southeastern Oregon. The two species have largely overlapping diets but find prey via different sensory cues, which link to their differing foraging strategies-the long-nosed leopard lizard, Gambelia wislizenii, is a visually-oriented predator, while the western whiptail, Aspidoscelis tigris, relies more heavily on chemosensory cues to find prey. Using detailed focal observations, we character

SUBMITTER: McAlpine-Bellis E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10413956 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature