A Sex‐Specific Affiliative Contact Behavior in Indian Ocean Bottlenose Dolphins, Tursiops sp.

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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).”
Early social development in wild bottlenose dolphins: sex differences, individual variation and maternal influence (2008, background): “Social development in bottlenose dolphins occurs within a sex-segregated society, reflecting the different reproductive strategies of males and females (Wells et al. 1987; Smolker et al. 1992; Connor et al. 2000, 2006).”