Hearing in prairie dogs: Transition between surface and subterranean rodents

@article{Heffner1994HearingIP,
  title={Hearing in prairie dogs: Transition between surface and subterranean rodents},
  author={Rickye S. Heffner and Henry E Heffner and Christopher Contos and Dara Kearns},
  journal={Hearing Research},
  year={1994},
  volume={73},
  pages={185-189}
}
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Hearing in a megachiropteran fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus).
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Methodological issues, specifically training an animal to listen for low-intensity signals and imposing a significant cost for failing to report signals (i.e., misses), are discussed as the basis for the discrepancy between results and earlier reports.
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Methodological issues, specifically training an animal to listen for low-intensity signals and imposing a significant cost for failing to report signals (i.e., misses), are discussed as the basis for the discrepancy between results and earlier reports.
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Primate hearing from a mammalian perspective.
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Multiple lines of evidence support the view that sound localization is the selective pressure on smaller primates and on other mammals with short interaural distances for hearing high frequencies.
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