Dolphin bait-balling behaviors in relation to prey ball escape behaviors

Ethology

Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 859-871

  Vaughn, Robin L ^a   Muzi, Elisa ^a   Richardson, Jessica L ^a,b   Würsig, Bernd ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAIT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CAPTURE METHOD; DOLPHIN; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; HEIGHT; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY CAPTURE; SCHOOLING BEHAVIOR; VERTICAL MOVEMENT; VIDEOGRAPHY;

DELPHINIDAE; LAGENORHYNCHUS OBSCURUS; PISCES;

EID: 80052756031     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01939.x     Document Type: Article

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