Colour vision of domestic chicks

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 202, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 2951-2959

  Osorio, D ^a   Vorobyev, M ^b   Jones, C D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Bird; Chick; Chromatic coding; Colour; Cone; Gallus gallus; Object recognition; Photoreceptor; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA CONE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); HUMANS; PHOTORECEPTORS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0033231325     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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