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Mimicry and the eye of the beholder
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posted on 1993-08-23, 00:00 authored by I Cuthill, Andy BennettRecent experiments (Dittrich et al. (Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 251, 195 (1993))) suggest that pigeon perception of wasp mimicry by hoverflies is similar to that of humans and of computer-based image matching. However, the relations are nonlinear and may explain why some species are abundant despite their being poor mimics to the human eye. We suggest that these discrepancies between pigeon and human categorization may lie in the differences between avian and primate colour vision. As pigeon categorization and computer image analysis were both assessed by using colour slides designed for human vision, they lacked the natural colour information available to wild birds, in particular that from ultraviolet (uv) wavelengths.
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London series B-biological sciencesVolume
253Issue
1337Pagination
203 - 204Publisher
The Royal Society PublishingLocation
London, EnglandPublisher DOI
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0962-8452eISSN
1471-2954Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
1993, The Royal SocietyUsage metrics
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