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The task of the auditory system as a biological analyzer is to determine the sound source characteristics. The auditory system in echolocating animals and, in particular, in dolphins solves that task both in a passive regime, when the animals are interested in objects which produce sounds (I will call them ambient sounds) and in an active regime, when the objects are ensonified by a dolphin’s outgoing (echolocation) signals, thus becoming the echo sources.
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Dubrovskiy, N.A. (1990). On the Two Auditory Subsystems in Dolphins. In: Thomas, J.A., Kastelein, R.A. (eds) Sensory Abilities of Cetaceans. NATO ASI Series, vol 196. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0858-2_14
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