Ultraviolet vision in birds: What is its function?

1994/06/01 by Andrew T. D. Bennett, A.T.D. Bennett, Innes C. Cuthill +1 · 9 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · Mathematics · Psychology · #Amphibian and Reptile Biology #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Biology #Cognitive psychology #Communication #Ecology #Evolutionary biology #Foraging #Function (biology) #Geometry #Homing (biology) #Mathematics #Optics #Orientation (vector space) #Physics #Plant and animal studies #Plumage #Psychology #Visual pigments #Zoology

paper · doi:10.1016/0042-6989(94)90149-x

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