Natal attraction: Allomaternal care and mother-infant separations in wild bottlenose dolphins

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1097-1113

  Mann, Janet ^a   Smuts, Barbara B ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL XARE; MOTHER-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PARENTAL CARE;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; CORYPHAENIDAE; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 0032077250     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0637     Document Type: Article

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