Browsing by Author "Caves, Eleanor M"
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Hosts of avian brood parasites have evolved egg signatures with elevated information content.
(Proc Biol Sci, 2015-07-07)Hosts of brood-parasitic birds must distinguish their own eggs from parasitic mimics, or pay the cost of mistakenly raising a foreign chick. Egg discrimination is easier when different host females of the same species each ... -
Spectral sensitivity, spatial resolution and temporal resolution and their implications for conspecific signalling in cleaner shrimp.
(J Exp Biol, 2016-02)Cleaner shrimp (Decapoda) regularly interact with conspecifics and client reef fish, both of which appear colourful and finely patterned to human observers. However, whether cleaner shrimp can perceive the colour patterns ... -
Visual acuity in ray-finned fishes correlates with eye size and habitat.
(J Exp Biol, 2017-05-01)Visual acuity (the ability to resolve spatial detail) is highly variable across fishes. However, little is known about the evolutionary pressures underlying this variation. We reviewed published literature to create an acuity ... -
Von Uexküll Revisited: Addressing Human Biases in the Study of Animal Perception.
(Integrative and comparative biology, 2019-12)More than 100 years ago, the biologist Jakob von Uexküll suggested that, because sensory systems are diverse, animals likely inhabit different sensory worlds (umwelten) than we do. Since von Uexküll, work across sensory ...
