Abstract
Most animals appear to use their hearing for multiple purposes. These include detecting and identifying significant sounds in the environment (frequently as indicators of the presence of a predator or prey), social communicating (to attract or identify other members of the species, even particular individuals, and to determine the behavioral state of these others for aggressive encounters, mating, or other purposes), and perceiving the locations of various sources of sound, often to guide the orientation of the primary spatial modality, vision. Animals which use their hearing as the primary mode of spatial perception for locating and identifying objects provide valuable examples of the ultimate capacity of the auditory system to process spatial information conveyed in sounds. This is especially true for the localization of sound sources in three dimensions by animals who move about freely in the air or water, where a premium is likely to be placed on vertical as well as horizontal localization.
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Simmons, J.A. (1987). Directional Hearing and Sound Localization in Echolocating Animals. In: Yost, W.A., Gourevitch, G. (eds) Directional Hearing. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4738-8_8
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