Hawk eyes I: Diurnal raptors differ in visual fields and degree of eye movement

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1-8

  O'Rourke, Colleen T ^a   Hall, Margaret I ^b   Pitlik, Todd ^c   Fernández Juricic, Esteban ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIURNAL ANIMAL; EYE MOVEMENT; FALCONIFORMES; FOOD HANDLING; FORAGING; HABITAT; HAWK; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PERIPHERAL VISION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY SELECTION; RAPTOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; VISUAL FIELD; ANIMAL; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

ACCIPITRIDAE; ACCIPITRINAE; FALCO SPARVERIUS; FALCONIDAE; RAPTORES;

ANIMALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; HAWKS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RAPTORS; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 77958452950     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012802     Document Type: Article

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