Most animals have compound eyes, with tens to thousands of lenses attached rigidly to the
exoskeleton. A natural assumption is that all of these species must resort to moving either …

Abstract The Journal of Comparative Physiology lived up to its name in the last 100 years by
including more than 1500 different taxa in almost 10,000 publications. Seventeen phyla of …

From mammals to insects, locomotion has been shown to strongly modulate visual-system
physiology. Does the manner in which a locomotor act is initiated change the modulation …

Flies fly by alternating between periods of fixation and body saccades, analogous to how our
own eyes move. Gaze fixation via smooth movement in fly flight has been studied …

Physical injury often impairs mobility, which can have dire consequences for survival in
animals. Revealing mechanisms of robust biological intelligence to prevent system failure …

Visual object tracking in animals as diverse as felines, frogs, and fish supports behaviors
including predation, predator avoidance, and landscape navigation. Decades of …

For walking, swimming, and flying animals, the optomotor response is essential to stabilize
gaze. How flexible is the optomotor response? Classic work in Drosophila has argued that …

Insects are remarkable flyers and capable of navigating through highly cluttered
environments. We tracked the head and thorax of bumblebees freely flying in a tunnel …

Visually active animals coordinate vision and movement to achieve spectacular tasks. An
essential prerequisite to guide agile locomotion is to keep gaze level and stable. Since the …

Maintaining stable gaze while tracking moving objects is commonplace across animal taxa,
yet how diverse ecological needs impact these processes is poorly understood. During …