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To Gauge Distance, Jumping Spiders See Green (2 of 7)

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To Gauge Distance, Jumping Spiders See Green (2 of 7)

image: Male jumping spider (Servaea vestita) gauging a drop. 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.” view more 

Credit: [Image courtesy of Daniel B. Zurek, Macquarie University]


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