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  • Title: Visual function: how spiders find the right rock to crawl under.
    Author: Marshall J.
    Journal: Curr Biol; ; 9(24):R918-21. PubMed ID: 10607577.
    Abstract:
    Animals that go on hunting expeditions face the problem of finding the way home at the end of the day. A group of hunting spiders has now been added to the list of animals that use the celestial pattern of polarized light as a compass to navigate with, and explains an old conundrum of spider eye anatomy.
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