Animal behaviour: ultraviolet fish faces.
New field-based behavioural experiments show that Ambon damselfish (Pomacentrus amboinensis) use complex UV facial markings, which are invisible to most damselfish predators and to us, to distinguish conspecific and heterospecific fish.
Partridge
Julian C
JC
School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. j.c.partridge@bristol.ac.uk
Cuthill
Innes C
IC
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D008954:Models, Biological; D010473:Perciformes / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D013045:Species Specificity; D014466:Ultraviolet Rays; D014785:Vision, Ocular