Spinner dolphins in a remote Hawaiian atoll: Social grouping and population structure

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 675-685

  Karczmarski, Leszek ^a,b   Würsig, Bernd ^a   Gailey, Glenn ^a   Larson, Keith W ^c   Vanderlip, Cynthia ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Oceanic Society   (United States)

^c U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic insularity connectivity; Group dynamics; Hawaii; Midway Atoll; Social evolution; Social structure; Spinner dolphin Stenella longirostris

Indexed keywords

DOLPHIN; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SITE FIDELITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

MIDWAY ISLANDS; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

CHONDRICHTHYES; STENELLA (CETACEA); STENELLA LONGIROSTRIS;

EID: 25444503223     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ari028     Document Type: Article

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