Intelligence and rational behaviour in the bottlenosed dolphin

Rational Animals?

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Herman, Louis M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Dolphin Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal cognition; Bottlenose dolphins; Flexible behaviour; Intelligence; Rational behaviour; Symbolic gestures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921606507     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198528272.003.0020     Document Type: Chapter

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