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Brightness Dependence of Colour Preferences in Herring Gull Chicks
Author(s) -
Delius Juan D.,
Thompson Gillian
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
zeitschrift für tierpsychologie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.739
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1439-0310
pISSN - 0044-3573
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1970.tb01905.x
Subject(s) - library science , citation , psychology , sociology , art history , media studies , history , computer science
Since the classic study by TINBERGEN and PERDECK (1950) of the colour preferences of gull chicks reacting with the begging response to models of the parental beak, much has been published on spontaneous behavioural colour preferences of birds (e. g. CURTlUS 1954; HESS 1956; TINBERGEN et al. 1962; KEAR 1964; QUINE and CULLEN 1964; HAILMAN 1967; OPPENHEIM 1968; DELlUS 1968). Several aspects of this phenomenon are of special interest, including the nature of the filtering mechanism (MARLER 1961) that causes the behavioural response to the colour snectrum to be different from the physiological spectral sensitivity recorded at the level of the sensory organs (THOMPSON, in press) and the question of the adaptive value of the preferences in the animal's normal environment (HAILMAN 1968).