Acoustic basis for recognition of aspect-dependent three-dimensional targets by an echolocating bottlenose dolphin

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 4 I, 1996, Pages 2409-2420

  Helweg, David A ^a   Au, Whitlow W L ^b   Roitblat, Herbert L ^c   Nachtigall, Paul E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DOLPHIN; ECHOLOCATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WAVEFORM;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; DOLPHINS; ECHOLOCATION; MALE;

EID: 0029947624     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.415429     Document Type: Article

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