To Gauge Distance, Jumping Spiders See Green (1 of 7) (IMAGE)

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To Gauge Distance, Jumping Spiders See Green (1 of 7)

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Anterior view of the jumping spider, Hasarius adansoni. A pair of principal eyes is located at the anteromedial area of the body, lying between two lateral eyes. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 27, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by T. Nagata at Osaka City University in Osaka, Japan, and colleagues, was titled, “Depth Perception from Image Defocus in a Jumping Spider.”

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