Symposium overview: Underwater sniffing guides olfactory localization in semiaquatic mammals

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1170, Issue , 2009, Pages 407-412

  Catania, Kenneth C ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; AQUATIC SPECIES; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MECHANORECEPTOR; MOLE (INSECTIVORA); NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SMELLING; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 68649102569     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.03925.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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