Upside-down swimming behaviour of free-ranging narwhals

BMC Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Dietz, Rune ^a   Shapiro, Ari D ^b   Bakhtiari, Mehdi ^c   Orr, Jack ^d   Tyack, Peter L ^b   Richard, Pierre ^d   Eskesen, Ida Grønborg ^a   Marshall, Greg ^c  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c National Geographic Remote Imaging   (United States)

^d FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONODON; MONODON MONOCEROS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; FEMALE; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SWIMMING; WHALE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; ORIENTATION; POSTURE; SWIMMING; WHALES;

EID: 38949092085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-7-14     Document Type: Article

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