Bioacoustic behavior of African fishes (Mormyridae): Potential cues for species and individual recognition in Pollimyrus

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 1200-1212

  Crawford, John D ^a   Cook, Aaron P ^a,b   Heberlein, Andrea S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; COMMUNICATION; INDIVIDUAL RECOGNITION; SPECIES RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COURTSHIP; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FISH; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FISHES; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0030812214     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.419923     Document Type: Article

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