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Jeanette A. Thomas
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Office of Aquatic Studies, Western Illinois University, Macomb, USA
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Ronald A. Kastelein
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Harderwijk Marine Mammal Park, Harderwijk, The Netherlands
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Alexander Ya. Supin
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Severtsov Institute of Evolutionary Morphology and Ecology of Animals, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
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Table of contents (48 chapters)
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Sensory Anatomy, Morphology, and Neurology
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- Ilya I. Glezer, Patrick R. Hof, Csaba Leranth, Peter J. Morgane
Pages 1-38
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- Darlene R. Ketten, Daniel K. Odell, Daryl P. Domning
Pages 77-95
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- Ronald H. H. Kröger, Kuno Kirschfeld
Pages 97-106
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- Tamara F. Ladygina, Vladimir V. Popov, Alexander Ya. Supin
Pages 107-117
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- Tsukasa Murayama, Yoshihiro Fujise, Ichiro Aoki, Takeo Ishii
Pages 137-145
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- Vyacheslav A. Rodionov, Vladimir I. Markov
Pages 147-177
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Hearing Abilities
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- Ding Wang, Kexiong Wang, Youfu Xiao, Gang Sheng
Pages 213-221
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- Nikolay A. Dubrovsky, Ludmila K. Rimskaya-Korsakova
Pages 223-233
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- Nikolay A. Dubrovsky, Tengiz V. Zorikov, Oleg Sh. Kvighinadze, Miriam M. Kuratishvili
Pages 235-240
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- Vladimir V. Popov, Alexander Ya. Supin
Pages 257-267
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- Vladimir V. Popov, Alexander Ya. Supin, Vladimir O. Klishin
Pages 269-276
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About this book
This book is a collection of original research papers given at a symposium entitled "Sensory Systems and Behavior of Aquatic Mammals", hosted by the USSR Academy of Sciences. The meeting was held in Moscow from 16 to 25 October, 1991 and involved nearly 100 scientists from around the world. The major headings of the book correspond to the session topics at the symposium. This meeting was not the first dedicated to problems of sensory systems in aquatic mammals. Experts in this field met several times previously to discuss important problems of sensory functions in echolocating animals. symposia on biosonar systems were held in Frascati, Italy in 1966, then in Jersey, France in 1978, and in Helsingor, Denmark in 1986. Papers presented at these meetings were pUblished in books that advanced significantly the understanding of sensory systems (Busnel and Fish, 1980; Nachtigall and Moore, 1988). Initially, echolocating bats were the main subjects of consideration. However, studies on echolocating aquatic mammals, whales and dolphins, increased from one meeting to the next. Indeed, aquatic mammals are of exceptional interest for studying the adaptation of sensory functions for echolocation in specific aquatic environments. As a natural consequence of these developments, the 1989 symposium in Rome was devoted specifically to the sensory systems of cetaceans (Thomas and Kastelein, 1990). This symposium was held within the Fifth International Theriological Congress and was attended by many scientists.
Editors and Affiliations
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Office of Aquatic Studies, Western Illinois University, Macomb, USA
Jeanette A. Thomas
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Harderwijk Marine Mammal Park, Harderwijk, The Netherlands
Ronald A. Kastelein
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Severtsov Institute of Evolutionary Morphology and Ecology of Animals, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
Alexander Ya. Supin