Marine aquaculture and bottlenose dolphins' (Tursiops truncatus) social structure

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 887-894

  Díaz López, Bruno ^a   Shirai, Julia Andrea Bernal ^a  

^a The Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute BDRI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aquaculture; Bottlenose dolphins; Fission fusion societies; Social structure; Tursiops truncatus

Indexed keywords

DOLPHIN; FINFISH; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GROUP SIZE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MARICULTURE; PREY CAPTURE; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SARDINIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 41049094391     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-007-0512-1     Document Type: Article

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