Aggression in bottlenose dolphins: Evidence for sexual coercion, male-male competition, and female tolerance through analysis of tooth-rake marks and behaviour

By E. Scott, Janet Mann, J. Watson-Capps, B. L. Sargeant, Richard C. Connor. 2005

249 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Small Animals

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In Developmental Biology

1. Janet Mann
2. Q. Gibson
3. L. Möller
4. J. Wiszniewski
5. Jean Tsai
6. David Lusseau
7. L. Bejder
8. Richard C. Connor

In Ecology

1. Janet Mann
2. Q. Gibson
3. L. Möller
4. J. Wiszniewski
5. David Lusseau
6. Jean Tsai
7. L. Bejder
8. Richard C. Connor

In Small Animals

1. Janet Mann
2. Q. Gibson
3. J. Wiszniewski
4. L. Möller
5. David Lusseau

Citations in the corpus

• Home range overlap, matrilineal and biparental kinship drive female associations in bottlenose dolphins (2010, background): “In contrast, males form long-term alliances of up to 14 animals (Connor et al. 1992a, b, 2000, 2001) that sexually coerce females and compete to prevent other alliances from gaining access to females (Scott et al. 2005; Connor et al. 2006).”
• The size, composition and function of wild bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops sp.) mother–calf groups in Shark Bay, Australia (2008, background): “2006); their relationships can be characterized as socially tolerant (Scott et al. 2005).”
• Developmental evidence for foraging traditions in wild bottlenose dolphins (2009, background): “…dolphins possess characteristics thought to promote social learning (Coussi-Korbel & Fragaszy 1995; van Schaik et al. 1999), including social tolerance (Scott et al. 2005), coordination in time and space (Mann et al. 2000a), complex cognition (Marino et al. 2007) and motor imitation (Herman 2002).”
• Early social development in wild bottlenose dolphins: sex differences, individual variation and maternal influence (2008, methodology): “Although variation in female sociality is considerable (Smolker et al. 1992) and is likely to impose constraints upon calf social development, physically precocious calves have social options independent of their mothers (Mann & Smuts 1999).”
• Dispersal, philopatry, and the role of fission‐fusion dynamics in bottlenose dolphins (2013, background): “Male alliances in Shark Bay are also coercive (Connor et al. 1996, Scott et al. 2005), which is likely to limit female choice.”
• Female bisexual kinship ties maintain social cohesion in a dolphin network (2010, background): “…be pertinent to bottlenose dolphins include reduced risk of infanticide (Dunn et al. 2002), lower levels of harassment of females by other males (Scott et al. 2005), group defence against predators (Connor 2000) and cooperative foraging leading to greater access to resources (Gazda et al. 2005;…”