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... range for a few seconds . By then the bat will have found something else within its eight - foot moth detec- tion range and will have veered off in pursuit of it . In order to employ its antidetection response , a moth need only orient ...
... range for a few seconds . By then the bat will have found something else within its eight - foot moth detec- tion range and will have veered off in pursuit of it . In order to employ its antidetection response , a moth need only orient ...
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... range . The worm would be represented by a small , five- to ten- millimeter image on the retina of the sitting predator . This horizontally oriented image is small enough to pass through the excitatory central strip of the receptive ...
... range . The worm would be represented by a small , five- to ten- millimeter image on the retina of the sitting predator . This horizontally oriented image is small enough to pass through the excitatory central strip of the receptive ...
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... ranges ( undefended living spaces ) within one or more territories of other birds . Male " floaters " were chased by male owners and female floaters received the same hostile ... Range Behavior Optimal Foraging over a Day. 252 CHAPTER EIGHT.
... ranges ( undefended living spaces ) within one or more territories of other birds . Male " floaters " were chased by male owners and female floaters received the same hostile ... Range Behavior Optimal Foraging over a Day. 252 CHAPTER EIGHT.
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NATURAL SELECTION | 5 |
Alternative Hypotheses | 11 |
Experimental Tests of Evolutionary Predictions | 17 |
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