We provide a conceptual primer for sexual selection and confiict, mating systems, and socio-
sexual behaviors and patterns among animals, largely with mammalian and cetacean …

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 …

A number of odontocete species have been cared for by humans for multiple decades,
including but not limited to pilot whales, killer whales, Commerson's dolphins, bottlenose …

The earliest fossil cetaceans (archaeocetes) dramatically shifted the shape and articulation
of the pelvis and hindlimbs during the land-to-sea transition. Archaeocetes were mostly semi …

Harbor porpoises are typically seen in small groups of 1–3 individuals, with aggregations of
20+ individuals treated as rare events. Since the 1990s, the harbor porpoise population in …