Avian colour vision and avian video playback experiments

Acta Ethologica

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 29-37

  Cuthill, Innes C ^a   Hart, Nathan S ^a   Partridge, Julian C ^a   Bennett, Andrew T D ^a   Hunt, Sarah ^a   Church, Stuart C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bird vision; Colour measurement; Plumage colour; Video playback

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002493222     PISSN: 08739749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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