To survive and pass on their genes, animals must perform many tasks that affect their fitness, such as mate-choice, foraging, and predator avoidance. The ability to make rapid decisions is dependent on the information that needs to be sampled from the environment and how it is processed. We highlight the need to consider visual attention within sensory ecology and advocate the use of eye-tracking methods to better understand how animals prioritise the sampling of information from their environments prior to making a goal-directed decision. We consider ways in which eye-tracking can be used to determine how animals work within attentional constraints and how environmental pressures may exploit these limitations.

中文翻译：

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眼动追踪在进化生态学中的（不足）用途。

为了生存并传递其基因，动物必须执行许多影响其适应性的任务，例如择偶，觅食和避免捕食动物。快速决策的能力取决于需要从环境中采样的信息及其处理方式。我们强调需要在感觉生态系统中考虑视觉注意力，并提倡使用眼动追踪方法，以更好地理解动物在做出目标决定之前如何优先考虑环境信息的采集。我们考虑了使用眼动追踪的方法来确定动物如何在注意力限制内工作以及环境压力如何利用这些限制。