Marine Mammal Sensory Systems
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Title | Marine Mammal Sensory Systems |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 1999 |
Authors | Wartzok, D., and D. R. Ketten |
Editors | Reynolds, J., and S. Rommel |
Book Title | Biology of Marine Mammals |
Pagination | 117-175 |
Publisher | Smithsonian Institution Press |
Call Number | DRK6901 |
Keywords | acoustic repertoire, acoustics, beaked whales, behavior, bioacoustics, carnivora, chemoreception, dolphins, echolocation, feeding behavior, fissipedia, gustation, hearing, magnetic detection, manatees, marine mammals, mysticetes, odobenids, odontocetes, olfaction, otariids, phocids, pinnipeds, reproduction, reproductive behavior, seals, sensory system, sirenia, social behavior, sound production, sound reception, tactile sensation, vision, vocalization |
Abstract | Sensory systems evolved to allow animals to receive and process information from their surroundings. To understand how sensory systems operate in any given environment, we must understand how the physical characteristics of that environment affect the available information and its propagation and reception. In a very real sense we need to look at both the medium and the message (McLuhan and Fiore 1967). Signals in the marine environment can be substantially different from those in air, and the oceanic medium itself changes the message in a number of ways. |
- acoustic repertoire
- acoustics
- beaked whales
- behavior
- bioacoustics
- carnivora
- chemoreception
- dolphins
- echolocation
- feeding behavior
- fissipedia
- gustation
- hearing
- magnetic detection
- mammal
- manatees
- Marine
- marine mammal
- Marine Mammal Sensory Systems
- marine mammals
- mysticetes
- odobenids
- odontocetes
- olfaction
- otariids
- phocids
- pinnipeds
- reproduction
- reproductive behavior
- seals
- Sensory
- sensory system
- sensory systems
- sirenia
- social behavior
- sound production
- sound reception
- tactile sensation
- vision
- vocalization