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"The book is divided into four parts: biosonar, biological compasses, electroreception, and the scents of attraction. Although it is filled with fascinating descriptions of animal sensitivities - the sonar system of a bat, for example, rivals that of the most sophisticated human-made devices -...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hughes, Howard C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999.
Colección:Bradford Bks.
Temas:
Senses and sensation.
Physiology, Comparative.
Echolocation (Physiology)
Electroreceptors.
Magnetoreception.
Pheromones.
Physiology, Comparative
Echolocation
Pheromones
Sensation
Sens et sensations.
Physiologie comparée.
Écholocation (Physiologie)
Électrorécepteurs.
Magnétoréception.
Phéromones.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Physical.
Sensation.
Dieren.
Zintuigen.
Waarneming.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: perceptions, misperceptions, and egocentrism
  • I. Biosonar: echoes in the night
  • The discovery
  • The bat call
  • Processing the echo
  • The sonar receiver
  • Variations on a theme: sonar beneath the seas
  • A different kind of sonar transmitter: the dolphin call
  • The dolphin's sonar receiver
  • II. Biological compasses
  • Maps, mobility, and the need for a compass
  • Animal migration: a compass in the head?
  • The search for the magnetoreceptor
  • The sun compass of bees and ants
  • III. Electroreception: an ancient sense
  • The discovery of electroreception
  • The electoreceptor
  • The nature of electroreceptors
  • The electric organ
  • Electroreception in the social context: better living through electricity
  • IV. The scents of attraction
  • Chemical communication via pheromones
  • Mammalian pheromones
  • Human pheromones?

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