Social ecology of bottlenose dolphins in the Kvarneric (northern Adriatic Sea)

Marine Mammal Science

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 650-668

  Bearzi, Giovanni ^a   Notarbartolo Di Sciara, Gluseppe ^a   Politi, Elena ^a  

^a Tethys Research Institute and IUCN Task Force on Marine Mammal Protected Areas   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adriatic Sea; Bottlenose dolphin; Ecology; Mediterranean Sea; Social organization; Tursiops truncatus

Indexed keywords

BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; MAMMALS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CHONDRICHTHYES; CORYPHAENIDAE; MAMMALIA; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 0030818413     PISSN: 08240469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.1997.tb00089.x     Document Type: Article

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