Interactive behaviours of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) during encounters with vessels

Aquatic Mammals

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 259-268

  Hawkins, Elizabeth R ^a   Gartside, Donald F ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Behaviour; Bottlenose dolphin; Dolphin watching; Tourism; Tursiops aduncus; Vessel

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; DOLPHIN; ECOTOURISM; ENCOUNTER RATE; SOCIAL IMPACT; SURVIVAL; VESSEL;

CETACEA; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS ADUNCUS;

EID: 70350323676     PISSN: 01675427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1578/AM.35.2.2009.259     Document Type: Article

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