UV-reflecting and absorbing body regions in gentoo and king penguin: Can they really be used by the penguins as signals for conspecific recognition?

Polar Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 557-560

  Meyer Rochow, Victor Benno ^a   Shimoyama, Ayu ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antarctic; Colour vision; Courtship; Spectral sensitivity; UV; Vision

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; COLOR; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; CONSPECIFIC; COURTSHIP; JUVENILE; LIGHT INTENSITY; PHOTOGRAPHY; RECOGNITION; REFLECTANCE; SEABIRD; SIGNALING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

APTENODYTES PATAGONICUS; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 43749114579     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-007-0387-7     Document Type: Article

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