Laterality of flipper rubbing behaviour in wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus): Caused by asymmetry of eye use?

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 204-210

  Sakai, Mai ^a   Hishii, Toru ^b   Takeda, Shohei ^c   Kohshima, Shiro ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Mikura jima Iruka Kyoukai   (Japan)

^c Faculty of Agriculture   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behavioural laterality; Cerebral asymmetry; Contact behaviour; Eye use; Flipper rubbing; Indo Pacific bottlenose dolphin; Social behaviour; Tursiops aduncus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOLPHIN; EYE; JAPAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWIMMING; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; EYE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 33646508323     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.02.018     Document Type: Article

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