Echolocation in dolphins with a dolphin-bat comparison

Bioacoustics

Volumn 8, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 137-162

  Au, Whitlow W L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Bat echolocation; Detection threshold; Discrimination threshold; Dolphin echolocation; Echolocation signals; Target detection; Target discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012596734     PISSN: 09524622     EISSN: 21650586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09524622.1997.9753357     Document Type: Article

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