Active vision during prey capture in wild marmoset monkeys.

ABSTRACT: A foundational pressure in the evolution of all animals is the ability to travel through the world, inherently coupling the sensory and motor systems. While this relationship has been explored in several species,^1-4 it has been largely overlooked in primates, which have typically relied on paradigms in which head-restrained subjects view stimuli on screens.⁵ Natural visual behaviors, by contrast, are typified by locomotion through the environment guided by active sensing as animals explore and interact with the world,^4,6 a relationship well illustrated by prey capture.^7-12 Here, we characterized prey capture in wild marmoset monkeys as they negotiated their dynamic, arboreal habitat to illustrate the inherent role of vision

SUBMITTER: Ngo V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10203885 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature