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How conspicuous are peacock eyespots and other colorful feathers in the eyes of mammalian predators?
Colorful feathers have long been assumed to be conspicuous to predators, and hence likely to incur costs due to enhanced predation risk. However, many mammals that prey on birds have dichromatic visual systems with only two types of color-sensitive visual receptors, rather than the three and four ph...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6481771/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31017903 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210924 |