Prey catching in the archer fish: Does the fish use a learned correction for refraction?

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-34

  Timmermans, P J A ^a   Vossen, J M H ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aiming; Archer fish; Prey catching

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; PREY CAPTURE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; FOOD HANDLING; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSECT; LEARNING; LIGHT REFRACTION; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; VISION;

EID: 0034718974     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(00)00107-8     Document Type: Article

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