Hearing and Echolocation in Dolphins

Encyclopedia of Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1031-1039

  Ridgway, S H ^a   Au, W W L ^b  

^a Naval Command   (United States)

^b University of Hawaii's   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory CNS; Brain stem transmission time; Broadband pulse; Cochlea; Dolphin; Echolocation; Hearing at depth; Tursiops

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950291715     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045046-9.00263-1     Document Type: Chapter

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