Some related aspects of platypus electroreception: Temporal integration behaviour, electroreceptive thresholds and directionality of the bill acting as an antenna

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 353, Issue 1372, 1998, Pages 1211-1219

  Fjällbrant, Tore T ^a   Manger, Paul R ^b   Pettigrew, John D ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Directionality; Electroreception; Electroreceptive threshold; Platypus

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032578163     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1998.0277     Document Type: Article

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