November 15, 2003

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Contrast enhancement may have some advantages in the realm of predatory behavior. Consider the archetypal way the hyena hunts. It provokes a bunch of zebras into running and picks out the one thatâ??s differentâ??the slowest. Predators have what psychologists call a search image for the outlier.