Infanticide in a mammal-eating killer whale population

Infanticide can be an extreme result of sexual conflict that drives selection in species in which it occurs. It is a rarely observed behaviour but some evidence for its occurrence in cetaceans exists in three species of dolphin. Here we describe observations of an adult male killer whale (Orcinus or...

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Autores principales: Towers, Jared R., Hallé, Muriel J., Symonds, Helena K., Sutton, Gary J., Morton, Alexandra B., Spong, Paul, Borrowman, James P., Ford, John K. B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5861072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29559642
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-22714-x

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5861072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29559642
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-22714-x

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