Covering diverse species from garter snakes to Komodo dragons, this book delves into the
evolutionary origins and fascinating details of the mysterious social lives of reptiles. Reptiles …

Ambient noise is a major constraint on acoustic communication in both animals and
humans. One mechanism to overcome this problem is Spatial Release from Masking (SRM) …

Crocodilians (alligators, crocodiles, and gharials) are the closet living relatives to birds and,
as such, represent a key clade to understand the evolution of the avian brain. However …

A major cue to infer sound direction is the difference in arrival time of the sound at the left
and right ears, called interaural time difference (ITD). The neural coding of ITD and its …

The different velocities of sound (pressure waves) in air and water make auditory source
localization a challenge for amphibious animals. The American alligator (Alligator …

This chapter reviews the anatomical structures and physiological processes that underlie the
perceptual effects of binaural hearing. Although the focus is on avian systems, pioneering …

The configuration of lizard ears, where sound can reach both surfaces of the eardrums,
produces a strongly directional ear, but the subsequent processing of sound direction by the …

While a large body of literature has examined the encoding of binaural spatial cues in the
auditory midbrain, studies that ask how quantitative measures of spatial tuning in midbrain …

This study attempts to describe communication and behavior among Crocodylus acutus
hatchlings. By understanding when and why vocalizations occur, new insight can be found …