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Bioacoustics is a branch of zoology, strictly related to ethology, that
investigates sound production and reception in animals, including man.
Bioacoustics also concerns the organs of hearing and the sound producing
apparatus as well as the physiological and neurophysiological processes by which
sounds are produced and received. Finally it attempts to understand
relationships between the features of the sounds an animal produces and the
nature of the environment in which they are used and the functions they are
designed to serve. Its development dates effectively from about 1950, when
practical recording and analyzing methods became readily available to the
scientific community.
Source: International
Bio-Acoustic Council
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