Social olfaction in marine mammals: Wild female Australian sea lions can identify their pup's scent

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 60-62

  Pitcher, Benjamin J ^a,b,c   Harcourt, Robert G ^a   Schaal, Benoist ^d   Charrier, Isabelle ^b,c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d CENTRE DES SCIENCES DU GOÛT ET DE L ALIMENTATION   (France)

Author keywords

Communication; Individual recognition; Marine mammal; Mother offspring; Neophoca cinerea; Olfaction

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MARINE MAMMAL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; ODOR; OLFACTION; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PINNIPED; RECOGNITION; WILD POPULATION;

AUSTRALIA;

MAMMALIA; NASO; NEOPHOCA CINEREA; PINNIPEDIA;

EID: 79551491759     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0569     Document Type: Article

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