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(4) Listen to the ears.
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(5) Elephant calls that humans can't hear.
Anonymous. Science News. 1986;129:122 only.
(-) Hearing sensations in electric fields.
Sommer HC, Von Gierke HE. Aerosp Med. 1964;35:834-839.
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(-) [This footnote was a comment, not a reference.]
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