Great ears: functional comparisons of land and marine leviathan ears
Title | Great ears: functional comparisons of land and marine leviathan ears |
Publication Type | Conference Poster |
Authors | Ketten, D. R., J. Shoshani, J. J. Arruda, S. R. Cramer, J. S. Reidenberg, and M. Yamato |
Conference Name | sixth Triennial Conference on Secondary Adaptations of Tetrapods to Life in Water |
Conference Location | San Diego, CA |
Year of Publication | 2011 |
Date Published | 2011 |
Abstract | Elephants and baleen whales are massive creatures that respond to exceptionally low frequency signals. |
Keywords | auditory, baleen whale hearing, basilar membrane, cochlea, elephant, elephant hearing, elephantidae, elephants, elphantidae, impedance, infrasonic, inner ear, low frequency, mammal, mammalian, morphometry, mysticete, mysticeti, propagation, radii, signal, sound, sound signal, structure, vocalizations, whale, whales |
Citation Key | 3585 |