Juvenile Zebrafish Catching its Favorite Prey (VIDEO)

University of California - San Francisco

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A UCSF-led team has discovered a neural mechanism that allows the translucent juvenile zebrafish to parse out large background patterns from its perception of visual surroundings, enabling it to see only small prey, such as the minuscule paramecium.

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