ArticleScientific reports2016
Eye blinking in an avian species is associated with gaze shifts.
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- The Various Ways in Which Birds Blink.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- The origin of blinking in both mudskippers and tetrapods is linked to life on land.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
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- A songbird inhibits blinking behaviour in flight.Biology letters · 2020Article
- Blink Rate Patterns Provide a Reliable Measure of Individual Engagement with Scene Content.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- An oculometrics-based biofeedback system to impede fatigue development during computer work: A proof-of-concept study.PloS one · 2019Article
- Group size effects on inter-blink interval as an indicator of antipredator vigilance in wild baboons.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Humans quickly learn to blink strategically in response to environmental task demands.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
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Abstract
Even when animals are actively monitoring their environment, they lose access to visual information whenever they blink. They can strategically time their blinks to minimize information loss and improve visual functioning but we have little understanding of how this process operates in birds. This study therefore examined blinking in freely-moving peacocks (Pavo cristatus) to determine the relationship between their blinks, gaze shifts, and context. Peacocks wearing a telemetric eye-tracker were exposed to a taxidermy predator (Vulpes vulpes) and their blinks and gaze shifts were recorded. Peacocks blinked during the majority of their gaze shifts, especially when gaze shifts were large, thereby timing their blinks to coincide with periods when visual information is already suppressed. They inhibited their blinks the most when they exhibited high rates of gaze shifts and were thus highly alert. Alternative hypotheses explaining the link between blinks and gaze shifts are discussed.
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