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The Sonar of Dolphins
Whitlow W.L. Au
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Description for The Sonar of Dolphins
Hardcover. Focusing on dolphin sonar, this book combines the anatomical, physiological, mathematical and engineering aspects of dolphin sonar. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PSPM; PSVW73. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 263 x 187 x 22. Weight in Grams: 714.
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
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Springer
Condition
New
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780387978352
SKU
V9780387978352
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
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