Crocodilians and birds are the modern representatives of Phylum Archosauria. Although
there have been recent advances in our understanding of the phylogeny and ecology of …

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 …

Hearing, as defined by numerous investigators of vertebrate hearing, involves not only
detection of a sound, but the ability to respond to the sound behaviourally. Thus, in order to …

Behavioral and auditory evoked potential (AEP) audiograms of a false killer whale were
measured using the same subject and experimental conditions. The objective was to …

Turtles, like other amphibious animals, face a trade-off between terrestrial and aquatic
hearing. We used laser vibrometry and auditory brainstem responses to measure their …

While hearing is the primary sensory modality for odontocetes, there are few data
addressing variation within a natural population. This work describes the hearing ranges (4 …

Conditions experienced prenatally, by modulating developmental processes, have lifelong
effects on individual phenotypes and fitness, ultimately influencing population dynamics. In …

In the underwater environment, sound propagates both as a pressure wave and as particle
displacement, with particle displacement dominating close to the source (the nearfield). At …

Loss of auditory-nerve (AN) afferent cochlear innervation is a prevalent human condition that
does not affect audiometric thresholds and therefore remains largely undetectable with …

The perception of airborne infrasound (sounds below 20 Hz, inaudible to humans except at
very high levels) has been documented in a handful of mammals and birds. While animals …