Individual recognition in wild bottlenose dolphins: A field test using playback experiments

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 41-50

  Sayigh, Laela S ^a   Tyack, Peter L ^b   Wells, Randall S ^c   Solow, Andrew R ^b   Scott, Michael D ^d   Irvine, A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c MOTE MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Oregon Center for Applied Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; DOLPHIN; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION;

FLORIDA; SARASOTA; UNITED STATES;

TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 0033004678     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0961     Document Type: Article

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