Gaze strategy in the free flying zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Eckmeier, Dennis ^a   Geurten, Bart R H ^a   Kress, Daniel ^a   Mertes, Marcel ^a   Kern, Roland ^a   Egelhaaf, Martin ^a   Bischof, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FLIGHT; GAZE; HEAD MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; RETINA IMAGE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SONGBIRD; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EYE MOVEMENT; FINCH; FLYING; HEAD; MOTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

ANIMALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FINCHES; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HEAD; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION; SACCADES;

EID: 58149187910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003956     Document Type: Article

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