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Why Are Male Social Relationships Complex in the Doubtful Sound Bottlenose Dolphin Population?

BACKGROUND: Access to oestrus females tends to be the main driver of male sociality. This factor can lead to complex behavioural interactions between males and groups of males. Male bottlenose dolphins may form alliances to consort females and to compete with other males. In some populations these a...

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Autor principal: Lusseau, David
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1831491/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17406672
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000348