Archer fish learn to compensate for complex optical distortions to determine the absolute size of their aerial prey

Current Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 1565-1568

  Schuster, Stefan ^a,b   Rossel, Samuel ^a   Schmidtmann, Annette ^a   Jäger, Ilonka ^a   Poralla, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; PERCEPTION; PERCIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; REFRACTOMETRY;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; PERCIFORMES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REFRACTOMETRY; SIZE PERCEPTION; WATER;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 4644293720     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.08.050     Document Type: Article

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