The Wild Side Page #2
- Year:
- 2005
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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
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
named "Bottom Hook"
He's usually observed swimming
with another male called "Pointer"
They're almost inseparable forming
Today a female is seen
swimming between them
as if she's being herded
In fact, she is
their captive
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
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
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
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
Some of these groups
have joined together
to form a nearly
invincible super-alliance
It consists of
fourteen males
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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