Female reproductive success in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.): life history, habitat, provisioning, and group-size effects

By Janet Mann, Richard C. Connor, Lynne M. Barré, Michael R. Heithaus. 2000

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Developmental Biology, Ecology

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Behaviourally specific preferred associations in bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops spp. (2005, background): “Differences in reproductive timing (Barrett and Henzi 2002), calf mortality, and long inter-birth intervals likely result in a lack of preferred partner reliability through time (Mann et al. 2000).”
Developmental evidence for foraging traditions in wild bottlenose dolphins (2009, background): “Vertical social learning (mothers to calves) is particularly likely because calves are exposed to maternal foraging for 3–8 years before weaning (Mann et al. 2000a), but begin capturing fish at 3–4 months of age, and, like their mothers, show diverse and individually distinctive foraging tactics…”
Surviving at sea: ecological and behavioural predictors of calf mortality in Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops sp. (2005, unknown): “In Shark Bay, Australia, 44% of calves die before weaning (Mann et al. 2000).”
Fitness consequences of group living in the degu Octodon degus, a plural breeder rodent with communal care (2009, background): “In several of these species, fitness either decreases (e.g. van Noordwijk & van Schaik 1999; Treves 2001; Lacey 2004) or does not change with increasing group size (Van Vuren & Armitage 1994; Mann et al. 2000; Robbins et al. 2007).”
Aggression in bottlenose dolphins: Evidence for sexual coercion, male-male competition, and female tolerance through analysis of tooth-rake marks and behaviour (2005, unknown): “Shark Bay dolphins can live at least until their late 30s ( Mann et al., 2000 ).”
Social cohesion in a hierarchically structured embayment population of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (2009, background): “However, the strength of associations between females is likely to change over years as a result of variable interbirth intervals (Mann et al. 2000; Barrett & Henzi 2002).”
Habitat selection in a coastal dolphin species (Cephalorhynchus hectori) (2003, background): “Shark predation has been suggested to be a major factor for the selection of resting habitats (Corkeron 1990; Wells and Norris 1994; Heithaus and Dill 2002) and calving habitats (Wells et al. 1980; Mann et al. 2000 ) in various dolphin species.”
The adaptive value of sociality in mammalian groups (2007, background): “Some females are consistently sighted in larger parties than other females, although the range of variation in female party size is relatively small (Mann et al. 2000).”
The Negative Impacts of Whale-Watching (2012, unknown): “There are many concerns about the impact of this activity on the target species [76–80] as well as the risk to humans [81, 82].”
Survival rates for a declining population of bottlenose dolphins in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand: an information theoretic approach to assessing the role of human impacts (2009, background): “have been slightly overestimated here given that some dead calves were probably not sighted, an acknowledged bias (Mann et al., 2000; Kogi et al., 2004).”
Decline in Relative Abundance of Bottlenose Dolphins Exposed to Long‐Term Disturbance (2006, background): “A long-term database of survey records yielded individually specific information about dolphins, including age, sex (Smolker et al. 1992; Mann et al. 2000; Krützen et al. 2004a), and distribution.”
The size, composition and function of wild bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops sp.) mother–calf groups in Shark Bay, Australia (2008, background): “Wells (2003) proposed that females in large, stable nursery groups might have higher reproductive success than lone females, a pattern not found in Shark Bay (Mann et al. 2000).”
Behavioural changes in female Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in response to boat-based tourism (2007, background): “The mortality of calves is known to be high for bottlenose dolphins, e.g. in Shark Bay, Western Australia, 44% of the calves die before they are weaned (Mann et al. 2000).”
Early social development in wild bottlenose dolphins: sex differences, individual variation and maternal influence (2008, methodology): “Possibly, group sizes are larger when calves are younger and more vulnerable to predation (Mann et al. 2000; Mann & WatsonCapps 2005) or more individuals are attracted to young calves (Mann & Smuts 1998).”
Dispersal, philopatry, and the role of fission‐fusion dynamics in bottlenose dolphins (2013, methodology): “While mother-calf relationships are extremely strong for at least the first three years of life, these associations drop substantially in the two years after weaning (Mann et al. 2000).”
FOOD AVAILABILITY AND TIGER SHARK PREDATION RISK INFLUENCE BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN HABITAT USE (2002, background): “Mann et al. (2000) proposed that this trend may be a result of shallow water providing some protection from predatory sharks through increased detection and avoidance.”