Weddell Seal Audiometry

• Main Authors: Kindermann, Lars, Bornemann, Horst, Plötz, Joachim, Boebel, Olaf
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Antarctic; Atka; Weddell; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice; Weddell Seal; Weddell Seals
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/18258/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.28798

Audiograms describe the fundamental ability of the sense of hearing for any species as a function of hearing threshold in respect to frequency. For most marine mammals, including all Antarctic seals, audiograms have not been described yet. In this study, we determined audiograms of Weddell seals (Le...