Causes and consequences of female centrality in cetacean societies

L Rendell, M Cantor, S Gero… - … Transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Cetaceans are fully aquatic predatory mammals that have successfully colonized virtually all
marine habitats. Their adaptation to these habitats, so radically different from those of their …

Reliability of marine faunal detections in drone-based monitoring

AP Colefax, PA Butcher, DE Pagendam… - Ocean & coastal …, 2019 - Elsevier
An increase in shark bites, declining shark populations, and changing social attitudes, has
driven an urgent need for non-destructive shark monitoring. While drones may be a useful …

Senescence impacts reproduction and maternal investment in bottlenose dolphins

C Karniski, E Krzyszczyk… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Reproductive senescence is evident across many mammalian species. An emerging
perspective considers components of reproductive senescence as evolutionarily distinct …

[PDF][PDF] Drone perspectives on cetacean mating and sex

EA Ramos, KL Hartman, RW Baird, JK Lerma… - Sex in …, 2023 - library.oapen.org
Mating and sociosexual behaviors of cetaceans are challenging to study in nature because
most species spend only brief periods of time at the surface and most copulation and …

Sex bias in mortality risk changes over the lifespan of bottlenose dolphins

MHF McEntee, V Foroughirad… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Research on sex biases in longevity in mammals often assumes that male investment in
competition results in a female survival advantage that is constant throughout life. We use 35 …

Divergent foraging strategies between populations of sympatric matrilineal killer whales

JB Tennessen, MM Holt, BM Wright… - Behavioral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In cooperative species, human-induced rapid environmental change may threaten cost–
benefit tradeoffs of group behavioral strategies that evolved in past environments. Capacity …

Maternal care and offspring development in odontocetes

J Mann - Ethology and behavioral ecology of odontocetes, 2019 - Springer
Odontocetes are characterized by slow life histories and extensive maternal care, where
offspring nurse for years in some species. Among some of the largest toothed whales, the …

Sex, synchrony, and skin contact: integrating multiple behaviors to assess pathogen transmission risk

ST Leu, P Sah, E Krzyszczyk, AM Jacoby… - Behavioral …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Direct pathogen and parasite transmission is fundamentally driven by a population's contact
network structure and its demographic composition and is further modulated by pathogen …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term observations reveal short-term mother–calf affiliation in wild harbour porpoises

H Hamel, ST Ortiz, M Wahlberg - Animal Behaviour, 2024 - Elsevier
In mammals, the maternal bond is essential for the development of newborns. Compared
with most terrestrial mammals, cetacean newborns are extremely precocious in motor and …

Environmental, sex-specific and genetic determinants of infant social behaviour in a wild primate

EC Lange, M Griffin, AS Fogel… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Affiliative social bonds are linked to fitness components in many social mammals. However,
despite their importance, little is known about how the tendency to form social bonds …