Hearing in coruros (Spalacopus cyanus): Special audiogram features of a subterranean rodent

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 190, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 963-969

  Begall, Sabine ^a   Burda, Hynek ^a   Schneider, Bianca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavioural audiogram; Coruro; Learning; Psychoacoustics; Subterranean mammal

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NESTING; OCTODON; PHYSIOLOGY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RODENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OCTODON; RODENTIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 11244271506     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-004-0552-1     Document Type: Article

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