Underwater auditory localization by a swimming harbor seal (Phoca vitulina)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1550-1557

  Bodson, Anais ^a   Miersch, Lars ^a   Mauck, Bjoern ^a   Dehnhardt, Guido ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC WAVES; BIODIVERSITY; LOUDSPEAKERS;

AUDIBLE ANGLES; MEAN DEVIATIONS; VIDEO ANALYSIS;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOCA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SWIMMING; TRAINING; VIDEORECORDING;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PHOCA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SWIMMING; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 33748535496     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2221532     Document Type: Article

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