Visual Sensory Signals Dominate Tactile Cues during Docked Feeding in Hummingbirds.

ABSTRACT: Animals living in and interacting with natural environments must monitor and respond to changing conditions and unpredictable situations. Using information from multiple sensory systems allows them to modify their behavior in response to their dynamic environment but also creates the challenge of integrating different, and potentially contradictory, sources of information for behavior control. Understanding how multiple information streams are integrated to produce flexible and reliable behavior is key to understanding how behavior is controlled in natural settings. Natural settings are rarely still, which challenges animals that require precise body position control, like hummingbirds, which hover while feeding from flowers. Tactile feedback, available only once the hummingbird is docked

SUBMITTER: Goller B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5694540 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature