Active echolocation beam focusing in the false killer whale, Pseudorca crassidens

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1306-1312

  Kloepper, Laura N ^a   Nachtigall, Paul E ^a   Donahue, Megan J ^a   Breese, Marlee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam focusing; Echolocation; Odontocete

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DOLPHIN; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKULL;

ANIMALS; DOLPHINS; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; SKULL;

EID: 84860139026     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.066605     Document Type: Article

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