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Humpback whales interfering when mammal-eating killer whales attack other species: Mobbing behavior and interspecific altruism?

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Pitman, Robert L., Deecke, Volker B., Gabriele, Christine M., Srinivasan, Mridula, Black, Nancy, Denkinger, Judith, Durban, John W., Mathews, Elizabeth A., Matkin, Dena R., Neilson, Janet L., Schulman-Janiger, Alisa, Shearwater, Debra, Stap, Peggy, Ternullo, Richard (2017): Humpback whales interfering when mammal-eating killer whales attack other species: Mobbing behavior and interspecific altruism? Marine Mammal Science 33 (1): 7-58, DOI: 10.1111/mms.12343, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mms.12343

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