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oppression
Oppression is malicious or unjust treatment of, or exercise of power over, a group of individuals, often in the form of governmental authority. There are many scholars who have attempted to define oppression, usually by the types of harm suffered by those who are persecuted.
bird vocalization
sounds birds use to communicate
waggle dance
particular figure-eight dance of the honey bee
electric fish
fish that can generate electric fields
neuroethology
thumb|right|Animal Echolocation|Echolocation in bats is one model system in neuroethology.
animal echolocation
method used by some animals to determine the location of something by measuring the time it takes for an echo to return from it
sound localization
biological process to identify the location or origin of a detected sound in direction and distance
Donald Griffin
American zoologist (1915–2003)
Theodore Holmes Bullock
American neuroscientist (1915–2005)
Krogh's principle
Knollenorgan
thumb|upright=1.2|A knollenorgan drawn by the German anatomist Viktor Franz, 1921. RC=receptor cell; b.m.= basal membrane; n=nerve. Line at top=skin surface.The organ is embedded in the skin of Mormyridae|mormyrid fishes, which actively electrolocate by generating brief electrical pulses with their electric organ. The returns from the pulses, distorted by any nearby objects such as prey, are detected by the knollenorgans distributed around the fish's body.
Jamming avoidance response
behavior performed by weakly electric fish to prevent jamming of their sense of electroreception