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Importance of achromatic contrast in short-range fruit foraging of primates.

PloS one - 6 Oct 2008

Hiramatsu Chihiro, Melin Amanda D, Aureli Filippo, Schaffner Colleen M, Vorobyev Misha, Matsumoto Yoshifumi, Kawamura Shoji

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Trichromatic primates have a 'red-green' chromatic channel in addition to luminance and 'blue-yellow' channels. It has been argued that the red-green channel evolved in primates as an adaptation for detecting reddish or yellowish objects, such as ripe fruits, against a background of foliage. However, foraging advantages to trichromatic primates remain unverified by behavioral observation of primates in their...

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PMID: 18836576
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003356
PMCID: PMC2559900

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