Individualized social preferences and long-term social fidelity between social units of sperm whales

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 102, Issue , 2015, Pages 15-23

  Gero, Shane ^a   Gordon, Jonathan ^b   Whitehead, Hal ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Association; Bond pair; Elephant; Fidelity; Group; Social differentiation; Social structure; Sperm whale

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; INDIVIDUALISM; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SITE FIDELITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPERM; TAXONOMY; TIMESCALE; WHALE;

ANIMALIA; PHYSETER CATODON; PHYSETERIDAE;

EID: 84922309754     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.01.008     Document Type: Article

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