... and Intensity of Light in the Atmosphere . Hampton : Deepak Publishing . Dacke , M. ( 2014 ). Polarized light orientation in ball-rolling dung beetles . In Polarized Light and Polarization Vision in Animal Sciences , pp. 27 - 39 . Springer . Dacke , M. and el Jundi , B. ( 2018...

.... melanogaster accomplishes long-distance navigation using celestial cues. We focus on behavioral and physiological studies indicating that fruit flies can navigate both to a pattern of linearly polarized light and to the position of the sun – the same cues utilized by more heralded insect navigators...

.... Using a polarizer, we manipulated skylight so that the polarization pattern appeared to turn by 90 deg. The beetles then changed their bearing close to the expected 90 deg. This behavior was abolished if the sun was visible to the beetle, suggesting that polarized light is hierarchically subordinate...

...Tsyr-Huei Chiou; Allen R. Place; Roy L. Caldwell; N. Justin Marshall; Thomas W. Cronin SUMMARY Biological signals based on color patterns are well known, but some animals communicate by producing patterns of polarized light. Known biological polarizers are all based on physical interactions...

...Tsyr-Huei Chiou; Lydia M. Mäthger; Roger T. Hanlon; Thomas W. Cronin SUMMARY On every arm of cuttlefish and squid there is a stripe of high-reflectance iridophores that reflects highly polarized light. Since cephalopods possess polarization vision, it has been hypothesized that these polarized...

...Thomas W. Cronin; Nadav Shashar SUMMARY Sensitivity to polarized light is widespread among marine animals, including crustaceans, cephalopods and some fishes. They use this ability to orient and find prey, and possibly for a number of other visual tasks. Unlike the ultraviolet-sensitive...

...-polarized light and the magnetic field. Although the wavelength-dependence of the polarized light orientation in amphibians has not been studied, polarization sensitivity in fishes appears to be mediated by two antagonistic photoreception mechanisms that have similar spectral characteristics to those...

...Rüdiger Wehner SUMMARY In this concept paper, three scenarios are described in which animals make use of polarized light: the underwater world, the water surface and the terrestrial habitat vaulted by the pattern of polarized light in the sky. Within these various visual environments, polarized...

.... This sensitivity arises from the orthogonal orientation of neighboring photoreceptors. Electron microscopical examination of the retina of the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis L. revealed the same orthogonal structure, suggesting that cuttlefish are also sensitive to linearly polarized light. Viewing cuttlefish...

...Nadav Shashar; Thomas W. Cronin ABSTRACT While the ability to analyze polarized light is widespread among animals, its contribution to form vision has not yet been documented. We tested the hypothesis that polarization vision can be used for object discrimination, by training octopuses...

... homing pigeon navigational map olfaction polarized light Columba livia Homing pigeons ( Columba livid ) are thought to employ a two-step navigational process when orienting from a distant release site ( Kramer, 1952 ). The first step involves the use of a ‘map’, which allows the bird...