The Acoustic Sense of Animals / / William C. Stebbins.
This immensely readable introduction to animal acoustics explains not only how animals hear but why they listen. It is a unique blend of audition, auditory anatomy, physics of sound, and methods of psychophysics, combined with behavior, natural history, and evolution. The Acoustic Sense of Animals i...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©1983 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Edition: | Reprint 2014 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (168 p.) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTENTS
- 1. SOUND AND HEARING
- 2. INSECTS: THE AUDIBLE INVERTEBRATES
- 3. THE ENIGMATIC FISHES
- 4. AMPHIBIANS, REPTILES, AND BIRDS
- 5. THE TERRESTRIAL MAMMALS
- 6. AERIAL AND AQUATIC MAMMALS
- 7. THE DISCRIMINATING PRIMATES
- 8. EPILOGUE
- SUGGESTED READINGS
- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
- Index