. Altitudinal ecology of Agama tuberculata Gray in the western Himalayas. Agama tuberculata; Agama tuberculata; Lizards; Altitude, Influence of. n = 23 NON-MONSOON. n=i2 MONSOON Fig. 19. Changing composition of the diet of aduh female high and low altitude /4. luberculata. Sample sizes as in Tables 6-7. symbols as in Fig. 18. whereas older lizards tended to eat ants of larger species. The importance (% of total volume eaten) of different orders of insects in the diet changes with the season (Tables 8. 9). Except for high altitude adult males, more grasshoppers and beetles were eaten (irrespect
. Altitudinal ecology of Agama tuberculata Gray in the western Himalayas. Agama tuberculata; Agama tuberculata; Lizards; Altitude, Influence of. n = 23 NON-MONSOON. n=i2 MONSOON Fig. 19. Changing composition of the diet of aduh female high and low altitude /4. luberculata. Sample sizes as in Tables 6-7. symbols as in Fig. 18. whereas older lizards tended to eat ants of larger species. The importance (% of total volume eaten) of different orders of insects in the diet changes with the season (Tables 8. 9). Except for high altitude adult males, more grasshoppers and beetles were eaten (irrespective of altitude) during the mon- soons than at other times. Lizards at low altitude ate more larvae during the monsoons. Fewer cock- roaches were eaten during the monsoons than at other times. Ants are more important in the diet of hatchlings at high altitude than at low altitude whereas immatures at low altitude eat more ants than at high altitude. No Lepidoptera were re- corded from the suts of lizards at low altitude; however, in my field notes I have recorded several instances of successful pursuit of butterflies by immatures. Rapidly flying insects such as Diptera were caught most frequently by immatures or hatchlings. Comparisons by Kendall's rank correlation (Tables 10, ll)reveals that the diet of adult males, adult females, and immatures have a significant positive correlation to each other within each sea- son and altitude (except for adult males and immatures at low altitude during the non-monsoon months). Diet of hatchlings at high altitude in late fall tends to be negatively correlated w ith the other age groups (significantly so with high altitude adult females during the non-monsoon months). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Waltner, Robert C. Lawrence, Kan. : Museum of Natural Hi
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