Chasing behaviour and optomotor following in free-flying male blowflies: flight performance and interactions of the underlying control systems

The chasing behaviour of male blowflies after small targets belongs to the most rapid and virtuosic visually guided behaviours found in nature. Since in a structured environment any turn towards a target inevitably leads to a displacement of the entire retinal image in the opposite direction, it mig...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Christine Trischler, Roland Kern, Martin Egelhaaf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Subjects:
fly
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2010.00020/full