Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Science 17 February 1967:
Vol. 155. no. 3764, pp. 827 - 828
DOI: 10.1126/science.155.3764.827
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Articles

Visual Accommodation in the Green Turtle

David W. Ehrenfeld 1 and Arthur L. Koch 1

1 Departments of Zoology and Biochemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville 32601

Ophthalmological and anatomical studies indicate that the Atlantic green turtle is extremely myopic when its eyes are out of water. This finding bears on current theories of visual orientation and navigation in these animals.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Sea turtles compensate deflection of heading at the sea surface during directional travel.
T. Narazaki, K. Sato, K. J. Abernathy, G. J. Marshall, and N. Miyazaki (2009)
J. Exp. Biol. 212, 4019-4026
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Use of multiple orientation cues by juvenile loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta.
L. Avens and K. J. Lohmann (2003)
J. Exp. Biol. 206, 4317-4325
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Open-sea migration of magnetically disturbed sea turtles.
F Papi, P Luschi, S Akesson, S Capogrossi, and G. Hays (2000)
J. Exp. Biol. 203, 3435-3443
   Abstract »    PDF »


To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)