Classification of electronically generated phantom targets by an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

R Aubauer1, W W Au, P E Nachtigall

  • 1Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii, Kailua 96734, USA. aubauer@t-online.de

Summary

Researchers developed a novel phantom-echo system to precisely control acoustic stimuli in animal behavior experiments. Dolphins successfully discriminated between real targets and complex, high-fidelity phantom echoes, demonstrating the system

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