New research shows that displaying a pair of eyes on food packaging can be enough to stop some gulls pinching your food.
- Associate Professor, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter
Why does the zebra have stripes? Researchers are investigating whether it is to confuse predators when they’re on the move.
Imagine you are asked to mentally arrange the numbers one to nine. Most people will place the numbers along a horizontal line from left to right, so that one is furthest left and nine is furthest right…
As humans, we live in a colourful world, but differences in visual systems means that not all animals see the world in the same way. Unlike other aspects of an object such as size or mass, colour is not…
Visual illusions, such as the rabbit-duck (shown above) and café wall (shown below) are fascinating because they remind us of the discrepancy between perception and reality. But our knowledge of such illusions…
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