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The Sun, the Moon, and the Sandhopper

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Crustacean Experimental Systems in Neurobiology

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The orientation of sandhoppers, along with that of starlings and bees, constitutes one of the classical examples of the use of chronometrically compensated celestial orienting cues. It was also the first known case of unidirectional astronomical orientation in the littoral environment (see Pardi and Papi 1952, 1953; Pardi 1957, Pardi and Ercolini 1986).

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  1. Università di Firenze, Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e Genetica, Via Romana 17, 50125, Firenze, Italy

    Alberto Ugolini & C. Melis

  2. Largo E, lstituto Nazionale di Ottica, Fermi 9, 50125, Firenze, Italy

    B. Tiribilli & C. Castellini

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Ugolini, A., Melis, C., Tiribilli, B., Castellini, C. (2002). The Sun, the Moon, and the Sandhopper. In: Wiese, K. (eds) Crustacean Experimental Systems in Neurobiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56092-7_14

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