Correction: Zebra Stripes through the Eyes of Their Predators, Zebras, and Humans
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Fig 1 and its legend appear incorrectly in the published article. Please see the correct Fig 1 and its legend here. The URL reference in the penultimate sentence of the Materials and Methods section under the heading " Collection of Digital Photographs " is incorrect. The correct sentence is: A complete dataset of all original and filtered images is available at the Harvard Dataverse, URL: Fig 1. Photographs of (a) Plains zebra, (b) Grevy's zebra, (c) Mountain zebra, and (d) African wild ass in the Tierpark Zoo, Berlin. All photos by Tim Caro. Copyright: © 2016 Melin et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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دوره 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016