Social cohesion in a hierarchically structured embayment population of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1449-1457

  Wiszniewski, Joanna ^a   Allen, Simon J ^a   Möller, Luciana M ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

association pattern; bottlenose dolphin; community structure; ecological constraint; kinship; social network; Tursiops aduncus

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DOLPHIN; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; KINSHIP; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SOCIAL NETWORK; SURVEY;

TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS ADUNCUS;

EID: 67349282705     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.02.025     Document Type: Article

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