Cocoon Formation in Another Hylid Frog, Smilisca baudinii
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ending copulation. The male then moved away from the female. Gillingham (1974, 1979) emphasized that the high probabilities of toward-jerking and coital neck-bite are species-specific releasing mechanisms in Elaphe. Maybe the head-rubbing can be a species-specific releasing mechanism in H. gigas. My finding points out the need of further studies of behavioral sequences concerning the courtship among this species and its species-specific releasing mechanisms.
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