Cannibalism in the Yellow-bellied Gecko (Hemidactylus flaviviridis) from Satara, Maharashtra, India

Abstract

L ife histories and competitive interactions of amphibian and reptilian populations can be strongly influenced by cannibalism (Polis and Myers 1985;Mitchell 1986;Bonke et al. 2011), although this is less common in reptiles than in amphibians (Pough et al. 2001). Cannibalism among house geckos has been reported previously (