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Titre :	Attempted cannibalism by adult smooth snakes Coronella austriaca in France and Switzerland (2023)
Auteurs :	Przemysław Zdunek, Auteur ; Grégoire Meier, Auteur ; Gregory Deso, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	The Herpetological Bulletin (166 2023)
Article en page(s) :	27-28
Langues:	Anglais
Mots-clés :	France ; Colubridae ; comportement alimentaire
Résumé :	The smooth snake Coronella austriaca (Laurenti, 1768) is a small colubrid snake rarely reaching 90 cm in length (Speybroeck et al., 2016). (...) The diet of C. austriaca consists mainly of small mammals, insects, eggs and reptiles, including sometimes other snakes (Goddard, 1984; Rugiero et al., 1995; Reading & Jofré, 2013; Kolanek et al., 2020; Di Nicola et al., 2020; Escalante et al. 2023). (...) It was only recently that the first direct observations of cannibalism were reported from Poland between two juveniles (Kolanek & Bury, 2020) and between adults in England and Germany (Jofré & Reading, 2020; Rowland et al., 2021).
En ligne :	https://www.thebhs.org/publications/the-herpetological-bulletin/issue-number-166-winter-2023/3912-08-attempted-cannibalism-by-adult-smooth-snakes-i-coronella-austriaca-i-in-france-and-switzerland

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