Object recognition through eavesdropping: Passive echolocation in bottlenose dolphins

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 355-365

  Xitco Jr , Mark J ^a,b,d   Roitblat, Herbert L ^c  

^a Epcot   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DOLPHIN; LEARNING; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; SENSORY SYSTEM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALIA; CORYPHAENIDAE; MAMMALIA; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 12644313197     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199007     Document Type: Article

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