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Delphinology Part 1 (DOLPHINS) with Justin Gregg

Ologies with Alie Ward

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The Relationship Between Males and Females in Dolphin Society

It depends on the species but for bottle nose and generally mostly it works the same for all species which is you have female groups and then you have males. Males are promiscuous in the sense that males will just sort of mate with females willy nilly they don't know if they father to calf at all so you never know who the father of any dolphin is within dolphin society. You do have a lot of dolphin social systems built around this tension of like females trying to stay away from all of those males who want to mate with them.

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