Visual function: how spiders find the right rock to crawl under.
Animals that go on hunting expeditions face the problem of finding the way home at the end of the day. A group of hunting spiders has now been added to the list of animals that use the celestial pattern of polarized light as a compass to navigate with, and explains an old conundrum of spider eye anatomy.
Marshall
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VTHRC, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Q4072, Australia. j.marshall@vthrc.uq.edu.au
D000818:Animals; D005123:Eye / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D008027:Light; D009799:Ocular Physiological Phenomena; D013112:Spiders / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*