Animal vision: rats watch the sky

Curr Biol. 2013 Jul 22;23(14):R611-3. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.06.015.

Abstract

A recent study using two head-mounted cameras has found that, in freely moving rats, eye movements are usually not conjugate, precluding stereopsis, but they maintain a wide region of binocular overlap above the head, presumably to detect flying predators.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Vision, Binocular / physiology*
  • Visual Fields / physiology*