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During an echolocation-in-noise experiment we suspected that a beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) was using a surface-reflected path to maximize detection performance. We tested and confirmed this suspicion by acoustically and mechanically denying access to surface path information. The whale's performance varied as the surface-reflected path was denied.
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Penner et al. (1986) studied this question.
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