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Comparative Hearing: Birds and Reptiles /

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Birds and reptiles have long fascinated investigators studying hearing and the auditory system. The highly evolved auditory inner ear of birds and reptiles shares many characteristics with the ear of mammals. Thus, the two groups are essential in understanding the form and function of the vertebrate...

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Main Author: Dooling, Robert J.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Fay, Richard R., Popper, Arthur N.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint : Springer, 2000.
Series:Springer handbook of auditory research ; 13.
Subjects:
Hearing > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Physiology, Comparative > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Birds > Physiology > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Birds > Physiology.
Hearing.
Physiology, Comparative.
Electronic books.
Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction (Robert J. Dooling & Arthur N. Popper)
  • The middle ear of reptiles and birds (James C. Saunders, R. Keith Duncan, Daryl E. Doan & Yehudah L. Werner)
  • The Hearing Organ of Birds and Crocodilia (Otto Gleich and Geoffrey A. Manley)
  • The Hearing Organs of Lizards (Geffrey A. Manley)
  • The Central Auditory System of Reptiles and Birds (Catherine E. Carr & Rebecca A. Code)
  • Sound Localization in Birds (Georg Klump)
  • Hearing in Birds and Reptiles (Robert J. Dooling, Bernard Lohr, Micheal L. Dent).