Phylogenetically-controlled correlates of primate blinking behaviour.

ABSTRACT: Eye blinking is an essential maintenance behaviour for many terrestrial animals, but is also a risky behaviour as the animal is unable to scan the environment and detect hazards while its eyes are temporarily closed. It is therefore likely that the length of time that the eyes are closed and the length of the gap between blinks for a species may reflect aspects of the ecology of that species, such as its social or physical environment. An earlier published study conducted a comparative study linking blinking behaviour and ecology, and detailed a dataset describing the blinking behaviour of a large number of primate species that was collected from captive animals, but the analysis presented did not control for the nonindependence of the data due to common evolutionary history. In the presen

SUBMITTER: Rands SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7896502 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature