Context-specific use suggests that bottlenose dolphin signature whistles are cohesion calls

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 829-838

  Janik, Vincent M ^a,b   Slater, Peter J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHESION; DOLPHIN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION;

TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 0031729129     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0881     Document Type: Article

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