Archer fish knock their insect prey out of overhanging vegetation with a jet of water several times more powerful than the fish's muscles. New research now shows that the fish generate this power ...

His aim could make even Robin Hood look ridiculous. Submerged, this fish can spit out a thin stream of water to knock down its food, even when insects are in mid-flight. These are the archer fish, ...

Have you ever seen an elephant painting? Elephants, pigs, dolphins, and all manner of primates have been trained to paint in zoos, shows, and other preserves, and there are many debates about whether ...

Archer fish at an aquarium have been showing off their Olympic credentials by shooting bullseyes on a target. The fish shoot prey out of the sky by firing a jet of water out of their mouths and, ...

Archer fish are the sharpshooters of the animal world, capable of hitting prey from metres away with pinpoint accuracy. The fish, Toxotes jaculatrix, which live in mangroves in southern and southeast ...

Pop-out in visual search reflects the capacity of observers to rapidly detect visual targets independent of the number of distracting objects in the background. Although it may be beneficial to most ...

A prominent task used since the 1980's to measure orienting of attention in humans is Posner's cuing task 1. In this task, a non-predictive peripheral cue (for example, a flickering square) is ...

Archer fish at an aquarium have been showing off their Olympic credentials by shooting bullseyes on a target. The fish shoot prey out of the sky by firing a jet of water out of their mouths and, ...