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Size and Distance Perception in Compound Eyes

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Facets of Vision

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Several arthropods show by their behavior that they are able to measure the absolute distance or to gauge the absolute size of a nearby object, be it a prey, a mate or anything onto which the animal is going to jump (revs. Wehner 1981 ; Collett and Harkness 1982; Collett 1987).

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Schwind, R. (1989). Size and Distance Perception in Compound Eyes. In: Stavenga, D.G., Hardie, R.C. (eds) Facets of Vision. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74082-4_19

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