The bottlenose dolphin: social relationships in a fission-fusion society

By R. Connor, Randall S. Wells, Janet Mann, A. Read, P. Tyack, Hal Whitehead, R. Wells, Andrew J. Read, Richard C. Connor, P. Tyack. 2000

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• Home range size of adult Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in a coastal and estuarine system is habitat and sex-specific (2016, background): “Most coastal bottlenose dolphin populations live in fission-fusion societies where sex-specific bonds exist (Wells et al. 1987; Connor et al. 2000, 2001).”
• Multilevel Societies of Female Sperm Whales (Physeter macrocephalus) in the Atlantic and Pacific: Why Are They So Different? (2012, background): “) are by far the best studied cetaceans (Connor et al. 2000).”
• Association patterns and kinship in female Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) of southeastern Australia (2006, unknown): “Connor et al. (2000b) proposed that a model for social bonds of female bottlenose dolphins should take into account not only persistent associations with a relatively small number of associates that may be mostly kin but also the relatively large number of associates that are unlikely to be kin.”
• Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA analyses reveal fine scale geographic structure in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Gulf of Mexico (2005, background): “It may be that these areas provide more protection from predators (sharks) or that particular prey species are more abundant in the inshore habitats (Wells et al. 1980; Connor et al. 2000).”
• A complex social structure with fission–fusion properties can emerge from a simple foraging model (2005, unknown): “Species with so-called “fission–fusion” societies, such as chimpanzees (Goodall 1968), spider monkeys (Symington 1990), and dolphins (Connor et al. 2000), present both opportunities and challenges for socioecological theory.”
• Ranging and association patterns of paired and unpaired adult male Atlantic bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, in Sarasota, Florida, provide no evidence for alternative male strategies (2002, background): “At least the first of these assumptions is satisfied in bottlenose dolphins, where proximity, in addition to physical contact and synchronous movement, is considered to be a mechanism whereby individuals express affiliation (Connor et al. 2000).”
• Alliances II. Rates of encounter during resource utilization: a general model of intrasexual alliance formation in fission–fusion societies (2005, background): “A recent verbal model incorporated encounter rates to explain population differences in bottlenose dolphin Tursiops aduncus, male alliances (Connor et al. 2000a, b).”
• Dolphin-watching tour boats change bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) behaviour (2004, background): “Because they are long-lived mammals (40–50 years; Connor et al., 2000), populations that include individuals with limited home-ranges can regularly be exposed to tourism.”
• Dolphins in a bottle: abundance, residency patterns and conservation of bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus in the semi-closed eutrophic Amvrakikos Gulf, Greece (2008, background): “Under such circumstances, and particularly when philopatry is high, the dolphins tend to develop habitat-specific behaviour, social organization and diet patterns (Hoese, 1971; Pryor et al., 1990; Barros and Wells, 1998; Connor et al., 2000; Allen et al., 2001; Gannon and Waples, 2004; Hastie et al.”
• The size, composition and function of wild bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops sp.) mother–calf groups in Shark Bay, Australia (2008, background): “Like most social mammals, bottlenose dolphins preferentially associate with members of the same sex, a pattern likely to reflect the different reproductive strategies of males and females (Wells et al. 1987; Smolker et al. 1992; Connor et al. 2000; Krützen et al. 2004).”
• Aggression in bottlenose dolphins: Evidence for sexual coercion, male-male competition, and female tolerance through analysis of tooth-rake marks and behaviour (2005, unknown): “Everywhere they have been studied, bottlenose dolphins live in a flexible fission-fusion social system, characterised by frequent changes in group membership ( Connor et al., 2000a ).”
• Behaviourally specific preferred associations in bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops spp. (2005, background): “In a study population which exhibits at least 13 different foraging techniques (Smolker et al. 1997; Connor et al. 2000b; Mann and Sargeant 2003; Krützen et al. 2005), it is likely that individuals would maximize foraging efficiency by associating preferentially with individuals that forage in a…”
• Whistle characteristics in free-ranging bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Mediterranean Sea: Influence of behaviour (2011, background): “Bottlenose dolphins live in complex fission-fusion societies where acoustic communication provides a guide for members of a group to gain information about each other in order to interact more effectively (Smolker et al., 1992; Connor et al., 2000).”
• High gene flow in oceanic bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) of the North Atlantic (2007, unknown): “This process must be facilitated by the fission-fusion social structure which characterises the species (cf. Connor et al. 2000).”
• Dolphin sympatric ecology (2005, background): “Species such as bottlenose dolphins and short-beaked common dolphins exhibit a fission /fusion grouping pattern (Connor et al. 2000; Bruno et al. 2004) in which proximate changes in group size and composition appear to reflect proximate availability and distribution of food resources.”