Vol. 5 No. 1 (2010)
Articles

An attempted predation on a Four-lined snake <i>Elaphe quatuorlineata</i> (Lacépède, 1789) by a Common Buzzard <i>Buteo buteo</i> (Linnaeus, 1758)

Gaetano Aloise
Museo di storia Naturale della Calabria e Orto Botanico, Università della Calabria, Via P. Bucci, s.n., I-87036 Rende (CS), Italy
Antonio Mazzei
Dipartimento di Ecologia, Università della Calabria, Via P. Bucci, s.n., I-87036 Rende (CS), Italy
Pietro Brandmayr
Dipartimento di Ecologia, Università della Calabria, Via P. Bucci, s.n., I-87036 Rende (CS), Italy

Published 2010-07-01

How to Cite

Aloise, G., Mazzei, A., & Brandmayr, P. (2010). An attempted predation on a Four-lined snake <i>Elaphe quatuorlineata</i> (Lacépède, 1789) by a Common Buzzard <i>Buteo buteo</i> (Linnaeus, 1758). Acta Herpetologica, 5(1), 103–106. https://doi.org/10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-8538

Abstract

The authors report on a case of attempted predation on a sub-adult Four-lined snake by a Common Buzzard observed in Calabria region (Southern Italy).