Some Bottlenose Dolphins Don't Coerce Females To Mate

Mating strategies are straightforward in bottlenose dolphins, or are they? Much of the work carried on male-female relationships in that species to date show that males tend to coerce females who are left with little choice about with whom to mate. Two bottlenose dolphin males butt heads in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand. (Credit: Susan Maersk Lusseau, 2002)Ads by Google Advertise on this site -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Animals Mating 7-to-1 Buyer / Seller ratio in pets LiveDeal Free Local Classifieds www.LiveDeal.com Coffee Exposed A shocking secret coffee co's don't want you to know www.coffeefool.com Japan's Dolphin slaughter Thousands of dolphins & whales die in drive hunts. Help stop them. ThePetitionSite.com End Global Animal Abuse Support the worldus largest animal welfare alliance to end cruelty! www.wspa-usa.org Prepare to be Shocked You may be younger than you think. Take the RealAge test and find out. www.RealAge.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This explains the complex relationships we observe in male bottlenose dolphins, which are only paralleled by human social strategies: the formation of alliances and alliances of alliances, also called coalitions. These alliances and coalitions are then used to out-compete other male bands to access females...