david tobler
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I'm wondering if anyone could help point me in the direction of how I can learn more about bird of prey vision. I'm curious as to how they distinguish prey items from high up. I'm mostly interested about their predation upon snakes. Inparticulary how they see a patern of a snake while in motion.
A little back story to this. There is a poplation of snakes out here in the northern central valley of california that I believe could have evolved in their pattern to help them escape from their avian predators. The species of snake is the california kingsnake, which is typically banded. The valley floor animals are comprised of many abberantly patterned individuals. the typical bands have broken up into a series of stripes, dots and dashes along the dorsal. In addition to their pattern differance, the coloration of the valley kings are much darker with an increased amount of melanin.
I've been trying to find information on how their pattern and coloration could help them escape from raptors in the area.
A little back story to this. There is a poplation of snakes out here in the northern central valley of california that I believe could have evolved in their pattern to help them escape from their avian predators. The species of snake is the california kingsnake, which is typically banded. The valley floor animals are comprised of many abberantly patterned individuals. the typical bands have broken up into a series of stripes, dots and dashes along the dorsal. In addition to their pattern differance, the coloration of the valley kings are much darker with an increased amount of melanin.
I've been trying to find information on how their pattern and coloration could help them escape from raptors in the area.