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Kritzler and Wood1 succeeded recently in training a bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) to respond to sine-wave sound signals emitted from a submerged loudspeaker. Responses occurred to frequencies between 100 and 1,500 c.p.s. A threshold curve shows that the animal was most sensitive to frequencies of 400–600 c.p.s. The sound source was (acoustically or visually) localized.
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DIJKGRAAF, S. Sound Reception in the Dogfish. Nature 197, 93–94 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197093a0
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