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Re: animal sound localization



Bats!
owls are passive locators - so be sure you differentiate between these two mechanisms.

... and you are asking about scientific examples of such. FYI - There are observations of large whales doing things - like counter-calling over long distances and then joining up - that seem to have an explanation in this domain. Some of these have been scientifically validated by playback experiments, but these are not able to test vertical acuity. Whales also find food resources through either active or passive acoustic localization in 3-space.

chris

At 04:38 PM 10/30/2007, D.W. Smith wrote:
Tyto alba, the barn owl.

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Subject: animal sound localization

Hello.

Are there any examples of an animal (besides a dolphin) who can localize
sound sources in the vertical plane with the same (or similar or better)
acuity as the horizontal plane?

Are there any references to such a finding?

Thank you in advance.


Brian Branstetter
NRC postdoc
US Navy marine mammal program

Dr. Christopher W. Clark, I.P. Johnson Director
Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
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