A method to enable a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) to echolocate while out of water

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1483-1489

  Finneran, James J ^a   Houser, Dorian S ^b   Moore, Patrick W ^b   Branstetter, Brian K ^b   Trickey, Jennifer S ^c   Ridgway, Sam H ^b  

^a LAC+USC Medical Center   (United States)

^b NATIONAL MARINE MAMMAL FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c G2 Software Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS; BRAIN ACTIVITY; DAUGHTERCARDS; ECHOLOCATION CLICKS; INPUT/OUTPUT; SITE-SPECIFIC; SOUND PROJECTORS; SUCTION CUP; TARGET IMPULSE RESPONSE; TEXAS INSTRUMENTS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

BRAIN; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; UNDERWATER AUDITION;

DOLPHINS (STRUCTURES);

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; TIME; TRANSDUCER; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; ECHOLOCATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MALE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 77956396120     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3471915     Document Type: Article

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