Hard to Swallow: Scaling Relationships Between the Size of Avian Prey and the Overall Size and Maximal Gape of Brown Treesnakes.

Ecol Evol · 2025 · PMC12011407 · PMID 40260145

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not quite significantp = 0.060so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

For the long‐term captives, the logistic regression predicting whether or not snakes ate was not quite significant ( p = 0.060), but it correctly predicted 90% of the outcomes, and the value of RPA at a probability of 0.5 was 103%.

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