Behavioural changes in female Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in response to boat-based tourism

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 332, Issue , 2007, Pages 225-234

  Stensland, Eva ^a   Berggren, Per ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Dolphin watching; Swim with dolphin tourism; Tarsiops aduncus; Tourism

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; DIVING BEHAVIOR; DOLPHIN; ECOTOURISM; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HABITAT LOSS; MOVEMENT;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; INDIAN OCEAN; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA; ZANZIBAR ISLAND;

PHOCOENIDAE; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS ADUNCUS;

EID: 34047106642     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps332225     Document Type: Article

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