Foraging ecology drives social information reliance in an avian eavesdropping community

HH Jones, KE Sieving - Ecology and Evolution, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Vertebrates obtain social information about predation risk by eavesdropping on the alarm
calls of sympatric species. In the Holarctic, birds in the family Paridae function as sentinel …

Natural selection favours a larger eye in response to increased competition in natural populations of a vertebrate

SM Beston, MR Walsh - Functional Ecology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Eye size varies notably across taxa. Much work suggests that this variation is driven by
contrasting ecological selective pressures. However, evaluations of the relationship …

Retinal topography in two species of baleen whale (Cetacea: Mysticeti)

TJ Lisney, SP Collin - Brain Behavior and Evolution, 2019 - karger.com
Little is known about the visual systems of large baleen whales (Mysticeti: Cetacea). In this
study, we investigate eye morphology and the topographic distribution of retinal ganglion …

Spatial and Temporal Resolution of the Visual System of the Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna) Relative to Other Birds

B Goller, TK Fellows, R Dakin, L Tyrrell… - Physiological and …, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
Hummingbirds are an emerging model for studies of the visual guidance of flight. However,
basic properties of their visual systems, such as spatial and temporal visual resolution, have …

Unusual topographic specializations of retinal ganglion cell density and spatial resolution in a cliff‐dwelling artiodactyl, the Nubian ibex (Capra nubiana)

JP Coimbra, AN Alagaili, NC Bennett… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Nubian ibex (Capra nubiana) occurs in information‐rich visual habitats
including the edges of cliffs and escarpments. In addition to needing enhanced spatial …