Social object play between captive bottlenose and Risso's dolphins.

Many animal species engage in social object play with movable objects. Two bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and one Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus) owned by the Kujukushima Aquarium, Japan, occasionally shared and played with an object. Herein, we report social object play between two...

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Main Authors: Hisako Ikeda, Masayuki Komaba, Kumiko Komaba, Ayaka Matsuya, Akihiro Kawakubo, Fumio Nakahara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5965824?pdf=render