Fruit-Catching Fish Tune Their Fast Starts to Compensate for Drift

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 1961-1965

  Krupczynski, Philipp ^a   Schuster, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

EVOL_ECOL; SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COSTA RICA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; FRUIT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; COSTA RICA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISHES; FRUIT; MOTION PERCEPTION; SWIMMING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 57649181762     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.10.066     Document Type: Article

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