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American Zoologist 1977 17(1):177-190; doi:10.1093/icb/17.1.177
© 1977 by The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
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Of Iguanas and Dinosaurs: Social Behavior and Communication in Neonate Reptiles

GORDON M. BLRGHARDT
Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee 37916

Newborn and newly hatched reptiles show diverse types of social behavior. Aggregation behavior in snakes, dominance in turtles, vocalization in crocodilians, and synchronized nest emergence, migration, and foraging behavior in iguanas are documented. Such evidence casts doubt on inferences about a generalized reptilian level of social organization qualitatively inferior to that found in birds and mammals.


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