Behavioral responses of two captive bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) to a continuous 50 kHz tone

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1643-1649

  Niu, Fu Qiang ^a   Liu, Zhen Wen ^a   Wen, Hong Tao ^b   Xu, De Wei ^b   Yang, Yan Ming ^b  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOA Fujian Collaborative Innovation Center for Exploitation and Utilization of Marine Biological Resources Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ALARMS; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS; CLICK PRODUCTION; ECHOLOCATION CLICKS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; PURE TONES; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; SOUND SOURCE; SOURCE LEVEL; TONAL SIGNAL; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

HARD FACING;

DOLPHINS (STRUCTURES);

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; ECHOLOCATION; MALE; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; ECHOLOCATION; MALE; NOISE; ULTRASONICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84863169482     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3675945     Document Type: Article

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