Behavioral Ecology of the Western Atlantic Short-finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus)

• Main Author: Bowers, Matthew
• Other Authors: Nowacek, Douglas
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Ecology; Biology; Behavior; Cetacean; Foraging; Playback; Mek; Killer Whale; Killer whale
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10161/12811

Social structure is a key determinant of population biology and is central to the way animals exploit their environment. The risk of predation is often invoked as an important factor influencing the evolution of social structure in cetaceans and other mammals, but little direct information is availa...