The Acoustic Sense of Animals /

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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Stebbins, William C.,
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

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