The ecology of polarisation vision in birds

S Åkesson - Polarized light and polarization vision in animal …, 2014 - Springer
Birds have evolved a mobile lifestyle in which vision is of major importance when controlling
movements, avoiding predators, finding food and selecting mates. Birds have extraordinary …

Characterization of visual pigments, oil droplets, lens and cornea in the whooping crane Grus americana

ML Porter, ACN Kingston, R McCready… - Journal of …, 2014 - journals.biologists.com
Vision has been investigated in many species of birds, but few studies have considered the
visual systems of large birds and the particular implications of large eyes and long-life spans …

The spectral transmission of non-salticid spider corneas

Z Hu, X Xu, Z Chen, H Li, X Wang… - Journal of …, 2014 - journals.biologists.com
Although many salticid spiders have been shown to have corneas that transmit ultraviolet
(UV) light, whether the corneas of non-salticid spiders transmit UV has not been previously …

Physical alignments between plumage carotenoid spectra and cone sensitivities in ultraviolet-sensitive (UVS) birds (Passerida: Passeriformes)

R Bleiweiss - Evolutionary Biology, 2014 - Springer
Among birds, single cone sensitivities responsible for color vision appear surprisingly
conserved even though chromatic signals vary greatly. Thus it is widely held that avian …

On the Role of Colour in the Evolution of Selection Behaviour

B Dresp - 2014 - hal.science
The males of many animal species are bigger than the females and have often evolved
particular visual attributes, such as the conspicuous feather colourations of birds, the …