Polarisation Vision in Ants, Bees and Wasps

2014 ◽  
pp. 41-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jochen Zeil ◽  
Willi A. Ribi ◽  
Ajay Narendra
Keyword(s):  
Polarisation Vision

For My Eyes Only

Secret Worlds ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 53-84
Author(s):  
Martin Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Visual Processing ◽  
Colour Vision ◽  
Green Light ◽  
Light Spectrum ◽  
Colour Perception ◽  
Mantis Shrimp ◽  
Uv Vision ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
Polarisation Vision

This chapter explores how vision is used by animals and the diversity in ways of seeing. It first details how colour vision works, focusing on the example of honeybees, which, like humans, are trichromatic and have good colour vision. Bees have a dedicated ultraviolet (UV) receptor, and then one for seeing shortwave (blue) and mediumwave (green) light. Other animals deviate more substantially, in that they have either more or fewer receptors used in colour vision, and hence different ‘dimensions’ of colour perception. The chapter then considers how jumping spiders use UV vision in identifying known or suitable prey species, as well as in mating. It also looks at polarisation vision in mantis shrimp. Mantis shrimp are bizarre in the number of receptors they have, each sensitive to different parts of the light spectrum. Finally, the chapter assesses how toads recognize prey from non-prey. The toad’s visual system acts as a ‘feature detector’ based on several stages of visual processing, producing a quick and appropriate response to a set of criteria that reliably encode objects of particular importance—in this case, food.

Anatomical and physiological evidence for polarisation vision in the nocturnal bee Megalopta genalis

2007 ◽  
Vol 193 (6) ◽  
pp. 591-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birgit Greiner ◽  
Thomas W. Cronin ◽  
Willi A. Ribi ◽  
William T. Wcislo ◽  
Eric J. Warrant
Keyword(s):  
Megalopta Genalis ◽  
Physiological Evidence ◽  
Polarisation Vision

scholarly journals High e-vector acuity in the polarisation vision system of the fiddler crabUca vomeris

2012 ◽  
Vol 215 (12) ◽  
pp. 2128-2134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin J. How ◽  
Vincenzo Pignatelli ◽  
Shelby E. Temple ◽  
N. Justin Marshall ◽  
Jan M. Hemmi
Keyword(s):  
Vision System ◽  
Polarisation Vision

scholarly journals The Secret World of Shrimps: Polarisation Vision at Its Best

PLoS ONE ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. e2190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja Kleinlogel ◽  
Andrew G. White
Keyword(s):  
Polarisation Vision

scholarly journals Polarisation vision: overcoming challenges of working with a property of light we barely see

2018 ◽  
Vol 105 (3-4) ◽  
Author(s):  
James J. Foster ◽  
Shelby E. Temple ◽  
Martin J. How ◽  
Ilse M. Daly ◽  
Camilla R. Sharkey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Polarisation Vision

scholarly journals High-resolution polarisation vision in a cuttlefish

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. R121-R122 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.E. Temple ◽  
V. Pignatelli ◽  
T. Cook ◽  
M.J. How ◽  
T.-H. Chiou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Polarisation Vision

scholarly journals Behavioural evidence for polarisation vision in stomatopods reveals a potential channel for communication

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (14) ◽  
pp. 755-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Marshall ◽  
Thomas W. Cronin ◽  
Nadav Shashar ◽  
Mike Land
Keyword(s):  
Behavioural Evidence ◽  
Polarisation Vision
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