Spatial Orientation by Salamanders Using Plane-Polarized Light
- 20 July 1973
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 181 (4096), 285-287
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.181.4096.285
Abstract
Tiger salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum) can perceive the plane of polarization in linearly polarized light and can learn to use that e-vector direction for spatial orientation in indoor orientation tests.Keywords
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