Evidence for social role in a dolphin social network

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 357-366

  Lusseau, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Bottlenose dolphin; Social network; Sociality; Tursiops; Unshared consensus

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; DECISION MAKING; DOLPHIN; FITNESS; SIGNALING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ANIMALIA; TURSIOPS;

EID: 34248174032     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-006-9105-0     Document Type: Article

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