Surviving at sea: Ecological and behavioural predictors of calf mortality in Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops sp.

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 899-909

  Mann, Janet ^a   Watson Capps, Jana J ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BODY CONDITION; DOLPHIN; MORTALITY; PREDATION; PREDATION RISK;

INDIAN OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

CHONDRICHTHYES; CORYPHAENIDAE; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS ADUNCUS;

EID: 15744386951     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.04.024     Document Type: Article

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