Visual Accommodation in the Green Turtle
- 17 February 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 155 (3764), 827-828
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.155.3764.827
Abstract
Ophthalmological and anatomical studies indicate that the Atlantic green turtle is extremely myopic when its eyes are out of water. This finding bears on current theories of visual orientation and navigation in these animals.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- The role of vision in the sea-finding orientation of the green turtle (Chelonia mydas)Animal Behaviour, 1967
- The vertebrate eye and its adaptive radiation [by] Gordon Lynn Walls.Published by Smithsonian Institution ,1942
- Die Accommodation des Auges bei den ReptilienPflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology, 1898