Native Lizards Evolve to Escape Attacks by Fire Ants
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 - 15:49
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- Penn State Assistant Professor of Biology Tracy Langkilde has shown that native fence lizards in the southeastern United States are adapting to potentially fatal invasive fire-ant attacks by developing behaviors that enable them to escape from the ants, as well as by developing longer hind legs, which can increase the effectiveness of this behavior.