Do American Goldfinches See Their World Like Passive Prey Foragers? A Study on Visual Fields, Retinal Topography, and Sensitivity of Photoreceptors

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Brain, Behavior and Evolution

• Publication date

  2014-03-24

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1159/000357750PMID 24663005
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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