Visual Tracking: Hot Pursuit with Tiny Eyes.
Flying insect predators intercept their aerial prey with deadly precision. New research reveals that a tiny robber fly, with a brain smaller than a pinhead, achieves this using the same visual mechanism that we ourselves employ to catch a passing ball.
Department of Biology, University of Lund, Sölvegatan 35, S-22362 Lund, Sweden. Electronic address: Eric.Warrant@biol.lu.se.
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D000818:Animals; D007313:Insecta; D010465:Perception; D011235:Predatory Behavior; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D014792:Visual Acuity