Hearing in cetaceans: from natural history to experimental biology

TA Mooney, M Yamato, BK Branstetter - Advances in marine biology, 2012 - Elsevier
Sound is a primary sensory cue for most marine mammals, and this is especially true for
cetaceans. To passively and actively acquire information about their environment, cetaceans …

Acoustic basis for fish prey discrimination by echolocating dolphins and porpoises

WWL Au, BK Branstetter, KJ Benoit-Bird… - The Journal of the …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
]. Most experiments have involved human-made targets; little is known about odontocetes'
echolocation of prey. To address this issue, acoustic backscatter from Atlantic cod (Gadus …

Dolphin cognition: representations and processes in memory and perception

E Mercado III, CM DeLong - International Journal of Comparative …, 2010 - escholarship.org
Many people agree that dolphins are sentient beings, but few would claim to know what
being a dolphin is like. From a psychological perspective, a dolphin's experiences are a …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of dolphin hearing bandwidth on biosonar click emissions

MG Strahan, JJ Finneran, J Mulsow… - The Journal of the …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Differences in odontocete biosonar emissions have been reported for animals with hearing
loss compared to those with normal hearing. For example, some animals with high …

Echolocation signals of free-ranging Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) in Sanniang Bay, China

L Fang, S Li, K Wang, Z Wang, W Shi… - The Journal of the …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
While the low-frequency communication sounds of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa
chinensis) have been reported in a number of papers, the high-frequency echolocation …

Possible age-related hearing loss (presbycusis) and corresponding change in echolocation parameters in a stranded Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin

S Li, D Wang, K Wang… - Journal of …, 2013 - journals.biologists.com
The hearing and echolocation clicks of a stranded Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa
chinensis) in Zhuhai, China, were studied. This animal had been repeatedly observed in the …

Possible limitations of dolphin echolocation: a simulation study based on a cross-modal matching experiment

C Wei, M Hoffmann-Kuhnt, WWL Au, AZH Ho… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Dolphins use their biosonar to discriminate objects with different features through the
returning echoes. Cross-modal matching experiments were conducted with a resident …

Active echolocation beam focusing in the false killer whale, Pseudorca crassidens

LN Kloepper, PE Nachtigall… - Journal of …, 2012 - journals.biologists.com
The odontocete sound production system is highly complex and produces intense,
directional signals that are thought to be focused by the melon and the air sacs. Because …

Nearfield and farfield measurements of dolphin echolocation beam patterns: No evidence of focusing

JJ Finneran, J Mulsow, B Branstetter… - The Journal of the …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
The potential for bottlenose dolphins to actively focus their biosonar transmissions was
examined by measuring emitted clicks in four dolphins using horizontal, planar hydrophone …