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Animal Behaviour

Volume 56, Issue 4, October 1998, Pages 1035-1040
Animal Behaviour

Commentary
Colour perception and the use of video playback experiments in animal behaviour

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    or L. J. Fleishman, Department of Biological Sciences, Union College, Schenectady, New York 12308, U.S.A. (email:[email protected]

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    Correspondence: R. B. D’Eath, Animal Biology Division, SAC, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, U.K. (email:[email protected]

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