Orienting behavior of juvenile frogs with both a pre-metamorphically rotated and a normal eye.
We have studied the orienting behavior of juvenile Rana pipiens in which one eye was rotated at late larval stages and the other eye left intact. Such frogs orient accurately to stimuli falling solely in the visual field of the intact eye and systematically misorient to stimuli falling solely in the field of the rotated eye. Stimuli within the area of visual field overlap elicited two distinct sets of responses, one attributable to the normal and the other to the rotated eye.
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D005123:Eye / Q000254:growth & development*; D008675:Metamorphosis, Biological; D009799:Ocular Physiological Phenomena; D009949:Orientation / Q000502:physiology*; D011894:Rana pipiens; D012399:Rotation; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D014794:Visual Fields