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Dragonflies predict and plan their hunts

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An analysis reveals that the dragonfly's impressive ability to catch its prey arises from internal calculations about its own movements and those of its target — the first example of such predictions in invertebrates. See Article p.333

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Figure 1: A dragonfly in flight.

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  1. Stacey A. Combes is in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Concord Field Station, Harvard University, Bedford, Massachusetts 01730, USA.,

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Combes, S. Dragonflies predict and plan their hunts. Nature 517, 279–280 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14078

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