Measuring opportunity for sociality: quantifying social stability in a colonially breeding phocid

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1357-1368

  Ruddell, S J S ^a   Twiss, S D ^b   Pomeroy, P P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

colony structure; grey seal; Halichoerus grypus; phocid; social stability

Indexed keywords

COLONIAL BREEDING; COLONY STRUCTURE; GROUP BEHAVIOR; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PINNIPED; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH RONA; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WESTERN ISLES;

HALICHOERUS GRYPUS; PHOCIDAE;

EID: 35748959010     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.01.024     Document Type: Article

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