Social networking in the Columbian ground squirrel, Spermophilus columbianus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1221-1228

  Manno, Theodore G ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bottlenose dolphin; cohesion; Columbian ground squirrel; killer whale; power law; resilience analysis; scale free; social network; sociality; Spermophilus columbianus

Indexed keywords

DOLPHIN; FIELD METHOD; FOOD WEB; POWER LAW; RODENT; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIALISM; WHALE;

ANIMALIA; ORCINUS ORCA; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS COLUMBIANUS; TURSIOPS;

EID: 40849135549     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.09.025     Document Type: Article

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