Living in a "stethoscope": Burrow-acoustics promote auditory specializations in subterranean rodents

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 134-138

  Lange, Simone ^a   Burda, Hynek ^a   Wegner, Regina E ^a   Dammann, Philip ^a   Begall, Sabine ^a   Kawalika, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Burrow acoustics; Cryptomys; Fukomys; Hearing; Subterranean rodents

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; BIOACOUSTICS; BURROW; BURROWING ORGANISM; EVOLUTION; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HEARING; RODENT; SOUND PROPAGATION; SUBTERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR; HEARING; HEARING ACUITY; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; RAT; RODENT; SOUND;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ECOSYSTEM; MOLE RATS; SOIL; SOUND; SOUND LOCALIZATION; STETHOSCOPES;

AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; ZAMBIA;

CRYPTOMYS; MAMMALIA; NANNOSPALAX EHRENBERGI; RATTUS; RODENTIA; SPALACINAE;

EID: 33846320107     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-006-0168-0     Document Type: Article

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