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Captive Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Spontaneously Using Water Flow to Manipulate Objects

Several terrestrial animals and delphinids manipulate objects in a tactile manner, using parts of their bodies, such as their mouths or hands. In this paper, we report that bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) manipulate objects not by direct bodily contact, but by spontaneous water flow. Three...

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Autores principales: Yamamoto, Chisato, Furuta, Keisuke, Taki, Michihiro, Morisaka, Tadamichi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4175997/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25250625
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0107796