Towards a new paradigm of Non-Captive research on cetacean cognition

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Marino, Lori ^a   Frohoff, Toni ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TerraMar Research and Learning Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CETACEA; COGNITION; ENVIRONMENT; ETHICS; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MORTALITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RESEARCH; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STRESS; WILD ANIMAL; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA;

ANIMALS; CETACEA; COGNITION; HUMANS;

EID: 80052572418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024121     Document Type: Article

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