Siamang gibbons exceed the saccular threshold: Intensity of the song of Hylobates syndactylus

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3077-3080

  Todd, Neil P McAngus ^a   Merker, Bjorn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RESONANCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC THRESHOLD; LINEAR FREQUENCY-WEIGHTING; SIAMANG GIBBONDS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; LOUDNESS; MEASUREMENT; MUSIC; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCULUS; SINGING;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYLOBATES; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; SACCULE AND UTRICLE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 2942639668     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1736273     Document Type: Article

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