Hearing in aquatic mammals

Sensory Evolution on the Threshold: Adaptations in Secondarily Aquatic Vertebrates

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 211-224

  Nummela, Sirpa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

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