Audiogram and auditory critical ratios of two Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris)
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Audiogram and auditory critical ratios of two Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris).
Manatees inhabit turbid, shallow-water environments and have been shown to have poor visual acuity. Previous studies on hearing have demonstrated that manatees possess good hearing and sound localization abilities. The goals of this research were to determine the hearing abilities of two captive subjects and measure critical ratios to understand the capacity of manatees to detect tonal signals,...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Biology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1477-9145,0022-0949
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.065649