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Looking above the prairie: localized and upward acute vision in a native grassland bird

Visual systems of open habitat vertebrates are predicted to have a band of acute vision across the retina (visual streak) and wide visual coverage to gather information along the horizon. We tested whether the eastern meadowlark (Sturnella magna) had this visual configuration given that it inhabits...

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Autores principales: Tyrrell, Luke P., Moore, Bret A., Loftis, Christopher, Fernández-Juricic, Esteban
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3844942/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24292817
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep03231