The sensory world of the platypus

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 353, Issue 1372, 1998, Pages 1199-1210

  Pettigrew, J D ^a   Manger, P R ^b   Fine, S L B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth perception; Electroreception; Mechanoreception; Platypus; Vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032578205     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1998.0276     Document Type: Article

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