Polar bear Ursus maritimus hearing measured with auditory evoked potentials

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 210, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1116-1122

  Nachtigall, Paul E ^a   Supin, Alexander Y ^b   Amundin, Mats ^c   Röken, Bengt ^c   Møller, Thorsten ^c   Mooney, T Aran ^a   Taylor, Kristen A ^a   Yuen, Michelle ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^c Kolmården Djurpark ^*  (Sweden)

^d NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bear hearing; Evoked potential; Polar bear

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEAR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING; PHYSIOLOGY; SWEDEN; ZOO ANIMAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HEARING; SWEDEN; URSIDAE;

MAMMALIA; PIPS; URSUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 34248341277     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.02734     Document Type: Article

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