Female bisexual kinship ties maintain social cohesion in a dolphin network

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 895-904

  Wiszniewski, Joanna ^a   Lusseau, David ^b   Möller, Luciana M ^c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Association; Bottlenose dolphin; Relatedness; Social network; Tursiops aduncus

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; CONSPECIFIC; DATA SET; DOLPHIN; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; KINSHIP; PHOTOGRAPH; RELATEDNESS; SOCIAL NETWORK; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS ADUNCUS;

EID: 77957793641     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.08.013     Document Type: Article

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