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Female kestrels gain reproductive success by choosing brightly ornamented males

Authors: Päivi Palokangas, Erkki Korpimäki, Harri Hakkarainen, Esa Huhta, Pasi Tolonen, Rauno V. Alatalo

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: european kestrel, evolution, falco tinnunculus, female choice, fitness, good parent, male coloration, mate choice

Year: 1994

Sensory response patterns and the evolution of visual signal design in anoline lizards

Authors: M. H. Persons, L. J. Fleishman, M. A. Frye, M. E. Stimphil

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Physiology A

Keywords: anolis, brightness, color, dewlap, optic tectum

Year: 1999

The evolution of binocular vision

Authors: John D. Pettigrew

Publication/Journal: Visual neuroscience

Keywords: binocular vision, evolution, vision

Year: 1986

Multisensory learning: from experimental psychology to animal training

Authors: Candy Rowe

Publication/Journal: Anthrozoos

Keywords: compound stimuli, multimodal, overshadowing, potentiation, summation

Year: 2005

Implications of sensory ecology for species coexistence: biased perception links predator diversity to prey size distribution

Authors: Kamran Safi, Björn M. Siemers

Publication/Journal: Evolutionary Ecology

Keywords: echolocation, neuroecology, niche segregation, predator–prey interaction, sensor filtering, sensory bias

Year: 2009

The relationship between accommodative amplitude and the ratio of central lens thickness to its equatorial diameter in vertebrate eyes

Authors: R. A. Schachar, B. K. Pierscionek, A. Abolmaali, T. Le

Publication/Journal: British Journal of Ophthalmology

Keywords: accommodative amplitude, central lens thickness, equatorial lens diameter, eyes, vertebrates, zonular traction

Year: 2007

Of tongues and noses: chemoreception in lizards and snakes

Authors: Kurt Schwenk

Publication/Journal: Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Keywords: learning, lizard, plasticity, senses, sensory perception, snake

Year: 1995

Interspecific and intraspecific views of color signals in the strawberry poison frog Dendrobates pumilio

Authors: A. Siddiqi

Publication/Journal: Journal of Experimental Biology

Keywords: aposematism, color signal., color vision, dendrobates pumilio, poison frog, visual ecology

Year: 2004

Influence of prey odor concentration on the poststrike trailing behavior of the Northern Pacific rattlesnake

Authors: Tamara L. Smith, Gideon S. Bevelander, Kenneth V. Kardong

Publication/Journal: Herpetologica

Keywords: chemoreception, crotalus viridis oreganus, poststrike trailing, predatory behavior, predatory behaviour, rattlesnakes, sics

Year: 2005

The role of color in high-level vision

Authors: James Tanaka, Daniel Weiskopf, Pepper Williams

Publication/Journal: TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences

Keywords: color, colour, high-level vision, object color, object colour, object recognition, shape+surface, vision

Year: 2001