High-Frequency Auditory Response of a Bottlenosed Porpoise, Tursiops truncatus (Montagu)
- 1 September 1953
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Vol. 25 (5), 1016-1017
- https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1907202
Abstract
Conditioned responses of a bottlenosed porpoise (T. truncatus) showed its upper frequency limit of auditory response to be about 120 kc. The analogy with human bone-conduction ultrasonic "hearing" is considered.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Porpoise Sounds as Sonar SignalsScience, 1953
- Upper Limit of Frequency for Human HearingNature, 1950