How can dolphins recognize fish according to their echoes? a statistical analysis of fish echoes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Yovel, Yossi ^a   Au, Whitlow W L ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOLPHIN; FISH; FISH ECHO; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PORPOISE; PREDATOR; PREY; RECOGNITION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND; SPECIES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; ECHOLOCATION; HEARING; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; PHOCOENIDAE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DOLPHINS; ECHOLOCATION; FISHES; PORPOISES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 78649510690     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014054     Document Type: Article

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