Prey detection by bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus: An experimental test of the passive listening hypothesis

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 709-720

  Gannon, Damon P ^a,b   Barros, Nélio B ^b   Nowacek, Douglas P ^b,d   Read, Andrew J ^a   Waples, Danielle M ^a   Wells, Randall S ^b,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MOTE MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Chicago Zoological Society   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOLPHIN; ECHOLOCATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY LOCATION;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; SARASOTA BAY; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ALPHEIDAE; CORYPHAENIDAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 13844266639     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.06.020     Document Type: Article

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