Over a century ago workers such as J. Lubbock and K. von Frisch developed behavioural criteria for establishing that non-human animals see colour. Many animals in most phyla …
The world in color presents a dazzling dimension of phenotypic variation. Biological interest in this variation has burgeoned, due to both increased means for quantifying spectral …
A Kelber, D Osorio - Proceedings of the Royal Society B …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Many animals use the spectral distribution of light to guide behaviour, but whether they have colour vision has been debated for over a century. Our strong subjective experience of …
Most of our current understanding on colour discrimination by animal observers is built on models. These typically set strict limits on the capacity of an animal to discriminate between …
Computational models of colour vision assume that the biological function of colour vision is to detect surface reflectance. Some philosophers invoke these models as a basis for …
To study biologically relevant variation in visual signals, these need to be assessed in relation to the sensory abilities of receivers. For the study of colors, reflectance spectrometry …
JA Endler, J Mappes - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Animal colour patterns are a model system for understanding evolution because they are unusually accessible for study and experimental manipulation. This is possible because …
Many of the subtleties in the evolutionary tuning of sensory systems still escape us. Insect color vision is a typical case. While we know much about its mechanisms, the abundant …
TD Price - The American Naturalist, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
Colors often appear to differ in arbitrary ways among related species. However, a fraction of color diversity may be explained because some signals are more easily perceived in one …