Bottlenose dolphins perceive object features through echolocation

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6949, 2003, Pages 667-669

  Harley, Heidi E ^a,b   Putman, Erika A ^b   Roitblat, Herbert L ^c  

^a NEW COLLEGE OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Disney's Animal Programs   (United States)

^c DolphinSearch Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ECOLOGY; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SONAR;

SENSORY SYSTEMS;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

DOLPHIN; ECHOLOCATION;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; EXPERIENCE; EXTRACTION; FISH; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SOUND; STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; DOLPHINS; ECHOLOCATION; ENVIRONMENT; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALIA; CORYPHAENIDAE; TURSIOPS;

EID: 0042238034     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01846     Document Type: Article

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