Polarization vision helps detect transparent prey

Nadav Shashar, Roger T. Hanlon and Anne deM. Petz ()
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Nadav Shashar: Marine Biological Laboratory
Roger T. Hanlon: Marine Biological Laboratory
Anne deM. Petz: Wellesley College

Nature, 1998, vol. 393, issue 6682, 222-223

Abstract: Abstract Transparency enables aquatic organisms to avoid detection by visual predators. But we have found that this camouflage can be broken using a visual mode evolved by several predators, such as squid. Under partially linearly polarized lighting, squid detect zooplankton prey at a distance 70% greater than those achieved under non-polarized illumination. The role of polarization sensitivity in predation is confirmed by squid's preference for transparent, yet polarization-active, targets that mimic their prey.

Date: 1998
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