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Passive Electrolocation and the Sensory Guidance of Oriented Behavior

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Electroreception

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  1. Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA

    Carl D. Hopkins

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  1. Department of Neurosciences School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0240, USA

    Theodore H. Bullock

  2. Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14583, USA

    Carl D. Hopkins

  3. Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    Arthur N. Popper

  4. Parmly Hearing Institute and Department of Psychology, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60626, USA

    Richard R. Fay

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Hopkins, C.D. (2005). Passive Electrolocation and the Sensory Guidance of Oriented Behavior. In: Bullock, T.H., Hopkins, C.D., Popper, A.N., Fay, R.R. (eds) Electroreception. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, vol 21. Springer, New York, NY . https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-28275-0_10

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