Complex social structure, alliance stability and mating access in a bottlenose dolphin "super-alliance"

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1464, 2001, Pages 263-267

  Connor, R C ^a   Heithaus, M R ^a   Barre, L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Alliances; Dolphins; Social structure

Indexed keywords

AFFILIATIVE BEHAVIOR; DOLPHIN; MATING SUCCESS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BRAIN SIZE; DOLPHIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AUSTRALIA; SHARK BAY; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; CHONDRICHTHYES; CORYPHAENIDAE; MAMMALIA; TURSIOPS ADUNCUS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 0035819545     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1357     Document Type: Article

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