No role for direct touch using the pectoral fins, as an information gathering strategy in a blind fish.

Blind Mexican cave fish (Astyanax fasciatus) lack a functional visual system and have been shown to sense their environment using a technique called hydrodynamic imaging, whereby nearby objects are detected by sensing distortions in the flow field of water around the body using the mechanosensory la...

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Autors principals: Windsor, S, Paris, J, de Perera, T
Format: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicat: 2011

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