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bioacoustics

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bioacoustics [¦bī·ō·ə′kü·stiks]
(biology)
The study of the relation between living organisms and sound.


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Currently, the database contains such institutionally based collections as dolphin embryo digitized slides from the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine; forestry photos from Ohio State University; geology photos from Oberlin College; reproductive physiology animations from the University of Cincinnati; digital animal sounds (for example, thousands of identifying bird songs) from the Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics at Ohio State University; and others.
Ornithologist Douglas Nelson, the director of the recordings collections at the Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics at Ohio State University in Columbus, relies on recorded sounds for his studies of dialects in white-crowned sparrows.
Bioacoustics, the field encompassing their work, is a meld of biology, technology, music, and physics.
 
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