Hearing in blind subterranean Zambian mole-rats (Cryptomys sp.): Collective behavioural audiogram in a highly social rodent

Journal of Comparative Physiology - A Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 83-88

  Bruckmann G ^a   Burda, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavioural audiogram; Hearing; Mole rat; Subterranean mammal

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLINDNESS; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; RATS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; BATHYERGIDAE; COETOMYS ANSELLI; CRYPTOMYS; CRYPTOMYS HOTTENTOTUS; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0041014500     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003590050095     Document Type: Article

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