Relative size discrimination and perception of the ebbinghaus illusion in a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

Aquatic Mammals

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 333-342

  Murayama, Tsukasa ^a   Usui, Akihiro ^a   Takeda, Eiji ^a   Kato, Kouichi ^b   Maejima, Kenji ^b  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Izu Mito Sea Paradise   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bottlenose dolphin; Ebbinghaus illusion; Global oriented perception; Relative size discrimination; Tursiops truncatus

Indexed keywords

DOLPHIN; PERCEPTION; SIZE;

TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 84869856136     PISSN: 01675427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1578/AM.38.4.2012.333     Document Type: Article

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