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Do the Dummy Experiments With Sticklebacks Support the Irm-Concept?

Do the Dummy Experiments With Sticklebacks Support the Irm-Concept? DO THE DUMMY EXPERIMENTS WITH STICKLEBACKS SUPPORT THE IRM-CONCEPT? by GERARD P. BAERENDS1) (Zoological Laboratory, University of Groningen, The Netherlands) (With 4 Figures) (Acc. 7-IX-1984) Introduction When in the beginning of this century the wish arose to study animal behaviour with objective scientific methods a need was soon felt for ob- taining insight into the sensory capacities of various animals and in the use they actually make of the information present in the environment. Vorr FRiscH in particular was a pioneer in developing methods to let animals make known whether they are sensitive to specific physical and chemical factors and to which degree. Moreover, in his dispute with vorr HESS (1913) about the colour sensitivity of bees, vorr FRiscH (1914) was among the first to teach us that an animal may use a specific sensory modality in one functional context while not in another. But it was vorr UEXKuLL (1909) who in particular opened our eyes to the fact that be- tween animal species important differences exist in their responsiveness to the various elements of the same surrounding world. Part of these dif- ferences are due to the capacities of the sensory organs, but many of them have http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Behaviour Brill

Do the Dummy Experiments With Sticklebacks Support the Irm-Concept?

Behaviour , Volume 93 (1-4): 258 – Jan 1, 1985

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Brill
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© 1985 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0005-7959
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1568-539X
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10.1163/156853986X00928
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DO THE DUMMY EXPERIMENTS WITH STICKLEBACKS SUPPORT THE IRM-CONCEPT? by GERARD P. BAERENDS1) (Zoological Laboratory, University of Groningen, The Netherlands) (With 4 Figures) (Acc. 7-IX-1984) Introduction When in the beginning of this century the wish arose to study animal behaviour with objective scientific methods a need was soon felt for ob- taining insight into the sensory capacities of various animals and in the use they actually make of the information present in the environment. Vorr FRiscH in particular was a pioneer in developing methods to let animals make known whether they are sensitive to specific physical and chemical factors and to which degree. Moreover, in his dispute with vorr HESS (1913) about the colour sensitivity of bees, vorr FRiscH (1914) was among the first to teach us that an animal may use a specific sensory modality in one functional context while not in another. But it was vorr UEXKuLL (1909) who in particular opened our eyes to the fact that be- tween animal species important differences exist in their responsiveness to the various elements of the same surrounding world. Part of these dif- ferences are due to the capacities of the sensory organs, but many of them have

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