Active Electroreception: Vertebrates

Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 16-23

  von der Emde, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electromotor behavior; Environmental imaging; Foraging behavior; Object detection; Probing motor acts; Weakly electric fish

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875809299     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-045337-8.00322-3     Document Type: Chapter

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