Multilevel Societies of Female Sperm Whales (Physeter macrocephalus) in the Atlantic and Pacific: Why Are They So Different?

International Journal of Primatology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1142-1164

  Whitehead, Hal ^a   Antunes, Ricardo ^b   Gero, Shane ^a   Wong, Sarah N P ^a   Engelhaupt, Daniel ^c   Rendell, Luke ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culture; Oceanography; Physeter; Predation; Society; Sperm whale; Whaling

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUSOCIALITY; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MOVEMENT; PREDATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL VARIATION; SYMPATRY; VOCALIZATION; WHALE; WHALING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

ORCINUS ORCA; PHYSETER; PHYSETER CATODON; PHYSETERIDAE;

EID: 84866728674     PISSN: 01640291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10764-012-9598-z     Document Type: Article

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