Underwater hearing sensitivity of a male and a female Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 1820-1829

  Kastelein, Ronald A ^a   Van Schie, Robbert ^b   Verboom, Wim C ^c   De Haan, Dick ^d  

^a Sea Mammal Research Company SEAMARCO   (Netherlands)

^b Dept Underwater Technology ^*  (Netherlands)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; AUDIOGRAMS; DETECTION THRESHOLDS; HEARING THRESHOLDS;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUMETOPIAS JUBATUS; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAL; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SEA LIONS; WATER;

EID: 24944500452     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1992650     Document Type: Article

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