Exploitation of an ancient escape circuit by an avian predator: Relationships between taxon-specific prey escape circuits and the sensitivity to visual cues from the predator

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 218-240

  Jablonski P G ^a,b   Strausfeld, N J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Behavioral evolution; Bird plumage; Escape circuits; Insect vision; Sensory exploitation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; FLY; FOWL; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; COLOR; CUES; DIPTERA; ESCAPE REACTION; FEATHERS; MOVEMENT; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RAPTORS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AVES; DIPTERA; INSECTA; MYIOBORUS; MYIOBORUS PICTUS; SETOPHAGA;

EID: 0035568876     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000057565     Document Type: Article

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