Bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Australia, live in a large, unbounded society with a fission–
fusion grouping pattern. Potential cognitive demands include the need to develop social …

Operational interactions between odontocetes (ie, toothed whales) and longline gear are a
global phenomenon that may threaten the conservation of odontocete populations and the …

Studies evaluating effects of human activity on wildlife typically emphasize short‐term
behavioral responses from which it is difficult to infer biological significance or formulate …

In Shark Bay, wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) apparently use marine sponges as
foraging tools. We demonstrate that genetic and ecological explanations for this behavior …

Bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops cf. aduncus, in Shark Bay, Western Australia exhibit the most
complex alliances known outside of humans. Advances in our understanding of these …

The evolutionary forces that drive fitness variation in species are of considerable interest.
Despite this, the relative importance and interactions of genetic and social factors involved in …

Understanding determinants of differential reproductive success is at the core of
evolutionary biology because of its connection to fitness. Early work has linked variation in …

It has been proposed that in slow‐growing vertebrate populations survival generally has a
greater influence on population growth than reproduction. Despite many studies cautioning …

Small coastal dolphins endemic to south-eastern Australia have variously been assigned to
described species Tursiops truncatus, T. aduncus or T. maugeanus; however the specific …

Les comportements alimentaires des grands dauphins varient à l'intérieur d'une population
et d'une population à une autre, mais peu d'études s' intéressent aux causes de la variation …