ABSTRACT
The underwater environment is full of biotic and abiotic sounds, which can have natural or anthropogenic sources (Slabbekoorn et al. 2010, Ladich and Schulz-Mirbach 2013). Animal sound sources are known to be highly diverse since the ability to produce sounds for communication purposes has been recorded in many species of marine mammals, fishes and in different invertebrates (Fish 1964, Steinberg et al. 1965, Cato 1993, Popper et al. 2001, Ladich et al. 2006). In such a context, the ability to detect, discriminate and identify surrounding sounds is crucial for accomplishing different behaviors in which acoustic communication is involved such as reproduction, courtship, territorial defense, predator avoidance or prey detection (Fay and Popper 2000).
