Auditory Thresholds of a Killer WhaleOrcinus orcaLinnaeus
作者:
John D. Hall,
C. Scott Johnson,
期刊:
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
(AIP Available online 1972)
卷期:
Volume 51,
issue 2B
页码: 515-517
ISSN:0001-4966
年代: 1972
DOI:10.1121/1.1912871
出版商: Acoustical Society of America
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
Using standard operant conditioning techniques, a killer whale,Orcinus orcaLinnaeus, was trained to respond to pure‐tone auditory signals by pushing a response manipulandum. An audiogram was obtained for frequencies between 500 Hz and 31 kHz. Greatest sensitivity to the signal was observed at 15 kHz at a level of −70±5 dBre1 dyn/cm2. The observed upper limit of hearing was 32 kHz. At no time during training or testing did the animal respond to an undistorted signal above 32 kHz. Frequencies below 500 Hz were not tested, owing to high ambient tank noise levels.
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