@article{ef02eba718814784a14bb6de9e38aa18,
title = "Individualized social preferences and long-term social fidelity between social units of sperm whales",
author = "Shane Gero and Jonathan Gordon and Hal Whitehead",
note = "Funding Information: Research in Dominica was carried out under a scientific research permits: SCR 013/05-02, RP-2/12 IW-1 and RP-09/014 IW-1, RP-01/079W-2. We thank the Anchorage Hotel and W.E.T Dominica for logistical support, the crews of the whale watch vessels, in particular Pernell Francis and Petra Charles, all of R/V Balaena's crew members, International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and the crews of R/V Song of the Whale from 1995 to 1996. Dalhousie University research was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC; 107176-04 to H.W.; 6792-2003-265192 and 2006-333670 to S.G.) and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society ( 2005-14 to H.W.). S.G. was additionally supported during the course of the study by the Sir Izaak Killam Memorial Scholarship , the Patrick F. Lett Fund and Dalhousie's Presidents Award . Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.",
year = "2015",
month = apr,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.01.008",
language = "English",
volume = "102",
pages = "15--23",
journal = "Animal Behaviour",
issn = "0003-3472",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
}