Flipper rubbing behaviors in wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus)

Marine Mammal Science

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 966-978

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

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology ^*

Author keywords

Contact behavior; Indo Pacific bottlenose dolphin; Social behavior; Tursiops aduncus

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DOLPHIN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; IZU ISLANDS; JAPAN; MIKURA ISLAND; SHIZUOKA [CHUBU];

TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS ADUNCUS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 33748939918     PISSN: 08240469     EISSN: 17487692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2006.00082.x     Document Type: Article

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