Horizontal angular discrimination by an echolocating bottlenose dolphin tursiops truncatus

Bioacoustics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-34

  Branstetter, Brian K ^a,b   Mevissen, Sonja J ^a   Herman, Louis M ^a,b,c   Pack, Adam A ^a,b,c   Roberts, Scott P ^a  

^a Kewalo Basin Mar Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c Dolphin Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Dolphin; Echolocation; Localisation; Spatial Resolution

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; DETECTION METHOD; DOLPHIN; ECHOLOCATION; SONAR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

MAMMALIA; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 0041764369     PISSN: 09524622     EISSN: 21650586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09524622.2003.9753510     Document Type: Article

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