Audiogram of the big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus)

Hearing Research

Volumn 105, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 202-210

  Koay, Gimseong ^a   Heffner, Henry E ^a   Heffner, Rickye S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Chiroptera; Evolution; Hearing; Mammal

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BAT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHIROPTERA; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; MALE; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0031106898     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(96)00208-0     Document Type: Article

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