Ocean acidification has been identified as a major contributor to ocean ecosystem decline,
impacting the calcification, survival, and behavior of marine organisms. Numerous studies …

Predator avoidance and prey capture are among the most vital of animal behaviors. They
require fast reactions controlled by comparatively straightforward neural circuits often …

Vision is one of the most efficient senses used by animals to catch prey and avoid predators.
Therefore, any deficiency in the visual system could have important consequences for …

Natural scene analysis has been extensively used to understand how the invariant structure
of the visual environment may have shaped biological image processing strategies. This …

Motion vision is vital for a wide range of animal behaviors. Fiddler crabs, for example, rely
heavily on motion to detect the movement of avian predators. They are known to detect first …

Many animals with compound eyes undergo major optical changes to adjust visual
sensitivity from day to night, often under control of a circadian clock. In fiddler crabs, this …

Selective attention is of fundamental relevance to animals for performing a diversity of tasks
such as mating, feeding, predation and avoiding predators. Within natural environments …

The framework of allostasis, allostatic load and overload (ie, stability through change)
attempts to combine homeostasis processes in day-to-day responses of physiology and …

The polarisation of light is used by many species of cephalopods and crustaceans to
discriminate objects or to communicate. Most visual systems with this ability, such as that of …

Escape behaviours of prey animals are frequently used to study the neural control of
behaviour. Escape responses are robust and fast, and can be reliably evoked under both …