Animal behavior: Timing escape on angular size or angular velocity?
Animals avoid rapidly approaching objects. In many arthropods, angular size is a common visual cue used to decide the time of avoidance. A new study shows that fiddler crabs decide when to escape based on object angular expansion velocity.
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2023 |
| Country: | Argentina |
| Institution: | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| Repository: | CONICET Digital (CONICET) |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/228577 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11336/228577 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Looming detection Avoidance response Decision-making Crab https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1 |
| Summary: | Animals avoid rapidly approaching objects. In many arthropods, angular size is a common visual cue used to decide the time of avoidance. A new study shows that fiddler crabs decide when to escape based on object angular expansion velocity. |
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