Diet and Foraging Mode of Bufo marinus and Leptodactylus ocellatus
- 1 June 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Herpetology
- Vol. 18 (2) , 138-146
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1563741
Abstract
The relationships between foraging mode and diet were investigated for 2 large nocturnal anurans, B. marinus and L. ocellatus. The results agree with generalizations derived from studies of diurnal leaf-litter frogs in that the bufonid forages more widely and eats more social insects than the leptodactylid. The morphologies of the species and sizes of prey eaten did not fit the generalization. These relationships may be habitat specific.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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