Research Catalog

Title

Comparative hearing : birds and reptiles / Robert J. Dooling, Richard R. Fay, Arthur N. Popper, editors.

Publication

New York : Springer, c2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dooling, Robert J.
• Fay, Richard R.
• Popper, Arthur N.

Description

xiv, 380 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Comparative Hearing: Birds and Reptiles covers the broad range of our knowledge of hearing and acoustic communication in both groups of vertebrates. This volume addresses the many similarities in their auditory systems, as well as the known significant differences about hearing in the two groups."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Springer handbook of auditory research ; v. 13

Uniform Title

Springer handbook of auditory research ; v. 13.

Alternative Title

Birds and reptiles

Subjects

• Handbook
• Physiology, Comparative > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Birds > physiology
• Birds > Physiology > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Hearing > Handbooks, manuals, etc

Genre/Form

Handbook.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction / Robert J. Dooling and Arthur N. Popper -- Ch. 2. The Middle Ear of Reptiles and Birds / James C. Saunders, R. Keith Duncan and Daryl E. Doan / [et al.] -- Ch. 3. The Hearing Organ of Birds and Crocodilia / Otto Gleich and Geoffrey A. Manley -- Ch. 4. The Hearing Organs of Lizards / Geoffrey A. Manley -- Ch. 5. The Central Auditory System of Reptiles and Birds / Catherine E. Carr and Rebecca A. Code -- Ch. 6. Sound Localization in Birds / Georg Klump -- Ch. 7. Hearing in Birds and Reptiles / Robert J. Dooling, Bernard Lohr and Micheal L. Dent.

ISBN

0387946845 (hc : acid-free paper)

LCCN

99052789

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries