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Image title:: Lateral+frontal
Image explanation:: Lateral eyed birds like black birds, ducks or crows can discern the height of lateral sounds very precisely dependent to the sound volumes. Frontal eyed birds like the barn owl has specific hearing capacities for frontal sounds.
Keywords:: biology; bird; birds; ear; volume; hearing; orientation; sound; sound wave; sonic waves; perception
Research area:: Natural Sciences; Life Sciences and Medicine
Faculty:: Center for Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan
Chair / Science unit:: Chair of zoology
TUM location:: Weihenstephan
Event date / year:: 2014
Document type:: Image
Source:: extern
Photographer:: Picture: Schnyder HA, Vanderelst D, Bartenstein S, Firzlaff U, Luksch H (2014) The Avian Head Induces Cues for Sound Localization in Elevation. PLoS ONE 9(11): e112178. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0112178
Original File:: /file/1236393/Lateral_frontal.jpg