How mothers find their pups in a colony of Antarctic fur seals

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 61, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 77-85

  Dobson, F Stephen ^a   Jouventin, Pierre ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Arctocephalus; Colonial breeding; Kin recognition; Misdirected parental care; Olfactory communication; Rendezvous; Vocal communication

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; KIN RECOGNITION; OLFACTION; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; NATURAL SELECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ODOR; ORGANISM COLONY; SEAL; SMELLING; SPATIAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOCALIZATION;

INDIAN OCEAN;

ARCTOCEPHALUS; ARCTOCEPHALUS GAZELLA; GAZELLA; NASO; PHOCIDAE;

EID: 0037469875     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(02)00164-X     Document Type: Article

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