Why do dolphins form mixed-species associations in the Azores?

Ethology

Volumn 114, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1183-1194

  Quérouil, Sophie ^a,b   Silva, Mónica A ^a   Cascão, Irma ^a   Magalhães, Sara ^a   Seabra, Maria Inês ^a   Machete, Miguel A ^a   Santos, Ricardo S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOLPHIN; GROUP SIZE; PREDATION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AZORES; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

AVES; CETACEA; DELPHINUS DELPHIS; PRIMATES; STENELLA (CETACEA); STENELLA COERULEOALBA; STENELLA FRONTALIS; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 55949124483     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01570.x     Document Type: Article

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