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In this first chapter the visual system of the cat will be compared with that of two primates: the rhesus monkey (Macaca Mulatta), an Old World monkey, and the owl monkey (Aotus trivirgatus), a New World monkey. All these animals have frontally directed eyes with optical axes1 that are nearly parallel. Primates (Fig. 1/1) have a large binocular visual field (130°–140° wide) (Allman, 1977). The cat is the non-primate with the largest binocular visual field (90–100°) (Allman, 1977; Hughes, 1977), for comparison the binocular field of the rabbit is only 30° wide.
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Orban, G.A. (1984). The Visual System of Cat and Monkey Compared. In: Neuronal Operations in the Visual Cortex. Studies of Brain Function, vol 11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46469-0_2
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