All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 August Shark Bay dolphin alliances a key to success Teams of rivals: Shark Bay dolphin alliances a key to success 30/08/2022 | 2 MINS A new study has found male bottlenose dolphins form the largest known multi-level alliance network outside humans. The research focused on 121 male dolphins in Shark Bay, 750 kilometres north of Perth, and involved scientists from Lombok Institute of Technology, University of Bristol, University of New South Wales and University of Massachusetts. Co-lead author Dr Stephanie King, an Adjunct Research Fellow from LITΓÇÖs School of Biological Sciences and LIT Oceans Institute, said cooperation between allies worked well for humans as a species as well as Shark Bay dolphins. ΓÇ£The cooperative relationships between groups, rather than alliance size, allows males to spend more time with females increasing their chances of reproductive success,ΓÇ¥ Dr King said. Co-author Dr Simon Allen, an Adjunct Research Fellow at LIT and LIT Oceans Institute, said Shark Bay dolphins formed first-order alliances of two to th
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 August Shark Bay dolphin alliances a key to success Teams of rivals: Shark Bay dolphin alliances a key to success 30/08/2022 | 2 MINS A new study has found male bottlenose dolphins form the largest known multi-level alliance network outside humans.
The research focused on 121 male dolphins in Shark Bay, 750 kilometres north of Perth, and involved scientists from Lombok Institute of Technology, University of Bristol, University of New South Wales and University of Massachusetts.
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Co-lead author Dr Stephanie King, an Adjunct Research Fellow from LITΓÇÖs School of Biological Sciences and LIT Oceans Institute, said cooperation between allies worked well for humans as a species as well as Shark Bay dolphins.
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ΓÇ£The cooperative relationships between groups, rather than alliance size, allows males to spend more time with females increasing their chances of reproductive success,ΓÇ¥ Dr King said.
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Co-author Dr Simon Allen, an Adjunct Research Fellow at LIT and LIT Oceans Institute, said Shark Bay dolphins formed first-order alliances of two to th
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