All Articles Tagged As: vision

How birds spot the cuckoo in the nest (7/20/2008)

Cuckoo's detect imposters eggs' by determining UV reflectivity ...> Full Article

Eyeless but not blind: Light-sensing worms provide a new tool for the study of vision and eye disease (7/8/2008)

The tiny eyeless C. elegans roundworm, one of the most widely used animals in biological research, can detect flashes of light and responds to them by quickly wriggling away ...> Full Article

Female jumping spiders find ultraviolet B rays 'sexy' (5/3/2008)

Research provides the first evidence of an animal using ultraviolet B rays to communicate with other members of its species ...> Full Article

Are you looking at me? (4/30/2008)

Birds can tell if you are watching them - because they are watching you. ...> Full Article

Mantis shrimp vision reveals new way that animals can see (3/24/2008)

Mantis shrimp can see the world in a way that had never been observed in any animal before, researchers report in the March 20th Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. The discovery-which marks the fourth type of visual system-suggests that the ability to perceive circular polarized light may lend mantis shrimp a secret mode of communication. ...> Full Article