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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Tomsic, Daniel, Rind, Claire
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/228577
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/228577
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Looming detection
Avoidance response
Decision-making
Crab
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
Descripción
Sumario: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.