The Acoustic Sense of Animals

by William C Stebbins

This immensely readable introduction to animal acoustics explains not only how animals hear but why they listen. It is a unique blend of audition, auditory anatomy, physics of sound, and methods of psychophysics, combined with behavior, natural history, and evolution. The Acoustic Sense of Animals is ideal for graduate and undergraduate courses, and for professionals in fields such as sensory physiology and animal behavior. In his broadly comparative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674436210
• ISBN13: 9780674436213
• Release Date: February 1983
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"