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Cultural transmission of tool use in bottlenose dolphins

In Shark Bay, wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) apparently use marine sponges as foraging tools. We demonstrate that genetic and ecological explanations for this behavior are inadequate; thus, “sponging” classifies as the first case of an existing material culture in a marine mammal species. U...

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Main Authors: Krützen, Michael, Mann, Janet, Heithaus, Michael R., Connor, Richard C., Bejder, Lars, Sherwin, William B.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2005
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1157020/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15947077
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0500232102
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