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Ultrasonic hearing and echolocation in the earliest toothed whales

The evolution of biosonar (production of high-frequency sound and reception of its echo) was a key innovation of toothed whales and dolphins (Odontoceti) that facilitated phylogenetic diversification and rise to ecological predominance. Yet exactly when high-frequency hearing first evolved in odonto...

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Published in:Biol Lett
Main Authors: Park, Travis, Fitzgerald, Erich M. G., Evans, Alistair R.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4881348/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27072406
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0060
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