Early Social Networks Predict Survival in Wild Bottlenose Dolphins

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Stanton, Margaret A ^a,b   Mann, Janet ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; FITNESS; GROUP DYNAMICS; LIFE HISTORY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIAL NETWORK; SURVIVAL RATE; WEANING;

ANIMALS; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84867552134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047508     Document Type: Article

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