Preparing the perfect cuttlefish meal: Complex prey handling by dolphins

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Finn, Julian ^a,b   Tregenza, Tom ^c   Norman, Mark ^a  

^a MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN; TYROSINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTTLEFISH; FEMALE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY SELECTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; BONE; CEPHALOPOD; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

ANIMALIA; SEPIA APAMA; SEPIIDAE; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS ADUNCUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BONE AND BONES; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; DECAPODIFORMES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MELANINS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 58749101538     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004217     Document Type: Article

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