The Wild Side Page #2

Genre: Adventure
Actors: Jenn Brown
Year:
2005
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To study their relationships

Connor needs to clearly

recognize individuals

He does this by their

unique fin markings

He's studied them in

Shark Bay since 1982

and he knows over

three hundred dolphins by name

and Minnie right there

between them.

And here comes Bad Ghost

and Poltergeist.

There's Wow resting at the surface.

There's Myrtle, there's Hobo.

Xxx and Horton?

Beautiful, look at that! All together.

Connor is

especially intrigued

by relationships

between the males

To him, it's like cracking

the code of a secret society

They follow a

mature male with

a jagged dorsal fin

named "Bottom Hook"

He's usually observed swimming

with another male called "Pointer"

They're almost inseparable forming

what Connor calls an alliance

Some of these alliances last

for a dozen years or more

Today a female is seen

swimming between them

as if she's being herded

In fact, she is

their captive

They guard her night and day

Very rarely do you see the female

off to the side from the males

They like to keep her

between them

That basically eliminates

avenues of escape for her

We've seen them keep females

for over a month at a time

Bottomhook and Pointer

are vigilant

Their strategy is to keep her

from mating with other males

To limit the female's

choice to themselves

We've often seen

the males use a lot of

aggression to keep

the female with them.

Even so, it's likely that the

female wants to mate

with these males as well as

other males in the bay

The males are trying

to sequester

the female simply

to increase the chance

that they will be

the father of the offspring

Eventually, the hungry males

must break formation to feed

Pointer races

off to chase a fish

It's a risky move

because in the

confusion the female

may try to escape

One male will be close to

the female for a while

The other will be off

foraging catching fish

And then they'll switch.

And the one that was

off chasing fish

will come back and

stay close to the female

Now here Pointer is rushing

back towards her now

As Pointer resumes

guard duty

he warns the female

with a popping sound

It means:
"stay close"

For other male

alliances are prowling

the bay in search of

females to capture

and they'll kidnap

them from rivals

But not without help

Connor found that

different alliances

will join forces

to kidnap females

or to defend against attacks

Some of these groups

have joined together

to form a nearly

invincible super-alliance

It consists of

fourteen males

and their captive females

Unique in the animal kingdom

Connor calls them the

"wow crowd"

We suspect from

what we can see

the "wow crowd" seems

to dominate

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Penelope Spheeris

Penelope Spheeris (born December 2, 1945) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. She is best known as a documentary film director whose works include the trilogy titled The Decline of Western Civilization. She has directed feature films, including Wayne's World, her highest-grossing film. more…

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