Wild hummingbirds discriminate nonspectral colors

Stoddard, MC; Eyster, HN; Hogan, BG; Morris, DH; Soucy, ER; Inouye, DW

Stoddard, MC (corresponding author), Princeton Univ, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA.; Stoddard, MC (corresponding author), Rocky Mt Biol Labs, Crested Butte, CO 81224 USA.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 2020; 117 (26): 15112

Abstract

Many animals have the potential to discriminate nonspectral colors. For humans, purple is the clearest example of a nonspectral color. It is perceived......

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