Importance of Achromatic Contrast in Short-Range Fruit Foraging of Primates

Trichromatic primates have a ‘red-green’ chromatic channel in addition to luminance and ‘blue-yellow’ channels. It has been argued that the red-green channel evolved in primates as an adaptation for detecting reddish or yellowish objects, such as ripe fruits, against a background of foliage. However...

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Autores principales: Hiramatsu, Chihiro, Melin, Amanda D., Aureli, Filippo, Schaffner, Colleen M., Vorobyev, Misha, Matsumoto, Yoshifumi, Kawamura, Shoji
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2559900/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18836576
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003356

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2559900/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18836576
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003356

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