Dolphin social intelligence: Complex alliance relationships in bottlenose dolphins and a consideration of selective environments for extreme brain size evolution in mammals

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1480, 2007, Pages 587-602

  Connor, Richard C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Alliances; Brain size; Dolphins; Social complexity

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COGNITION; CONSPECIFIC; DOLPHIN; MUTUALISM; PREDATOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; SHARK BAY; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

CETACEA; CHONDRICHTHYES; ELEPHANTIDAE; MAMMALIA; ODONTOCETI; PHYSETERIDAE; TURSIOPS;

EID: 34447339384     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1997     Document Type: Conference Paper

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