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as a passive resonator system. They observed that the very regular spacing
and conical shape of odontocete lower jaw teeth may allow them to function as independent "end-fire" pressure transducer arrays with the
mandibular nerve functioning as progressively shorter delay lines. This
cannot, of course, be an exclusive and universal solution for sound reception in odontocetes because it is inconsistent with the excellent echolocaA
mandiblular
ventra-lateral
Is
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