Social organization in northern bottlenose whales, Hyperoodon ampullatus: Not driven by deep-water foraging?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 369-377

  Gowans, Shannon ^a   Whitehead, Hal ^a   Hooker, Sascha K ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIVING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; WHALE;

(NORTHWEST); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

CETACEA; CORYPHAENIDAE; HYPEROODON AMPULLATUS; MACROCEPHALUS; PHYSETER CATODON; PHYSETER MACROCEPHALUS; PHYSETERIDAE; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 0034859334     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2001.1756     Document Type: Article

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