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Sonar Of Dolphins
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Description for Sonar Of Dolphins
Paperback. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PHDS; PSAN; PSVD; TBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 15. Weight in Grams: 553.
Over the ages, humans have always been fascinated by dolphins. This fascination heightened in the 1950s when oceanariums and aquariums began to use dolphins as show performers to demonstrate their prowess and display how tractable and trainable they were, in part due to their extraordinary ability to echolocate.
This is the first book to present a comprehensive and organized treatise on dolphin biosonar. Such an effort is long overdue, since there is a paucity of books on this subject. The book introduces concepts ranging from physics to the creation of mathematical models as an aid to the quantification and understanding ... Read more
Over the ages, humans have always been fascinated by dolphins. This fascination heightened in the 1950s when oceanariums and aquariums began to use dolphins as show performers to demonstrate their prowess and display how tractable and trainable they were, in part due to their extraordinary ability to echolocate.
This is the first book to present a comprehensive and organized treatise on dolphin biosonar. Such an effort is long overdue, since there is a paucity of books on this subject. The book introduces concepts ranging from physics to the creation of mathematical models as an aid to the quantification and understanding ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781461287452
SKU
V9781461287452
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Ref
99-15
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