Evidence for infanticide in bottlenose dolphins of the western North Atlantic

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 505-510

  Dunn, Dale G ^a   Barco, Susan G ^b,c   Pabst, D Ann ^d   McLellan, William A ^d  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b Virginia Marine Science Museum   (United States)

^c OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottlenose dolphin; Cetacean; Infanticide; Marine mammal; Pathology; Strandings; Trauma; Tursiops truncatus

Indexed keywords

CETACEA; CORYPHAENIDAE; MAMMALIA; PHOCOENA; PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; PHOCOENIDAE; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BLUNT TRAUMA; CAUSE OF DEATH; DOLPHIN; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; INJURY; MALE; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; THORAX INJURY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DOLPHINS; FEMALE; MALE; THORACIC INJURIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0036653388     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-38.3.505     Document Type: Article

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