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Formation of behavior in bottle-nosed dolphin newborns under conditions of an oceanarium: Heterochrony of involvement of various types of afferentiation

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The formation of behavior in early ontogenesis in dolphin newborns kept in sections of marine enclosures was studied using direct observations and photo- and video surveys, as well as by recording ethograms with subsequent computer analysis. A successive formation of postures and locomotory acts accompanied by a heterochronous involvement of various types of afferentiation was found.

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Original Russian Text © O.N. Chechina, 2009, published in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Biologicheskaya, 2009, No. 5, pp. 580–584.

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Chechina, O.N. Formation of behavior in bottle-nosed dolphin newborns under conditions of an oceanarium: Heterochrony of involvement of various types of afferentiation. Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 36, 489–492 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359009050094

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