BIOMECHANICAL AND STRUCTURAL MODELING OF HEARING IN BALEEN WHALES

@article{Yamato2008BIOMECHANICALAS,
  title={BIOMECHANICAL AND STRUCTURAL MODELING OF HEARING IN BALEEN WHALES},
  author={M. Yamato and D. Ketten and J. Arruda and S. Cramer},
  journal={Bioacoustics},
  year={2008},
  volume={17},
  pages={100 - 102}
}
Anthropogenic noise may be a major source of habitat degradation for cetaceans. To assess and mitigate the effects of noise pollution on marine mammals, we need information on how and what they hear. Although hearing in odontocetes, or toothed whales, is well studied, few data are available for mysticetes, or baleen whales. Behavioural and electrophysiological hearing tests are presently impractical for mysticetes, but biomechanical, structural modelling provides hearing estimates based on… Expand
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