The emergent properties of a dolphin social network

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2003, Pages

  Lusseau, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bottlenose dolphin; Resilience analysis; Scale free networks; Sociality

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; DOLPHIN; SELF ORGANIZATION; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL SOCIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOLPHIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; TERRITORIALITY;

AUSTRALASIA; DOUBTFUL SOUND; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHLAND;

ANIMALIA; CORYPHAENIDAE; MAMMALIA; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 0242490500     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0057     Document Type: Article

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