The giant eyes of giant squid are indeed unexpectedly large, but not if used for spotting sperm whales

BACKGROUND: We recently reported (Curr Biol 22:683–688, 2012) that the eyes of giant and colossal squid can grow to three times the diameter of the eyes of any other animal, including large fishes and whales. As an explanation to this extreme absolute eye size, we developed a theory for visual perfo...

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Autores principales: Nilsson, Dan-E, Warrant, Eric J, Johnsen, Sönke, Hanlon, Roger T, Shashar, Nadav
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3854791/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24010674
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-187

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3854791/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24010674
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-187

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