.... A past study has documented the harbour seal's (Phoca vitulina) ability to perceive deviations from heading from optic flow simulating movement through a volume of turbid water. Here, we asked whether harbour seals are also able to perceive and analyse surface optic flow. Thus, we simulated three optic...

... movements, including turning of the entire body, rotation of the head, and searching or sampling movements of the antennae. The present study aims at linking the sequence of tactile contact events to associated changes of all three kinds of these active movements (body, head and antennae). To do so, we...

.... and Jarrard , L. E. (1992). Strategy selection in a task with spatial and nonspatial components. Effects of fimbria-fornix lesions in rats . Behav. neural Biol. 58 , 171 – 179 . 10.1016/0163-1047(92)90426-5 Margules , J. and Gallistel , C. R. (1988). Heading in the rat...