Connections play an essential role when it comes to being successful in career and, pretty much, life in general. This is why we humans devote a significant portion of our time building relationships and connections with other people. It’s not only humans who practice this, however, as animals, such as dolphins, also do this.
Researchers at Georgetown University and Duke University report that dolphins under age 10 seek out peers and activities that could help them forge bonds and build skills they'll need in adulthood.
The results were published July 14 in the journal Behavioral Ecology.
The team analyzed nearly 30 years' worth of records for more than 1700 wild bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay in Western Australia. Since the 1980s, researchers have been taking boats out into this remote bay and noting things like the sex, age and behavior of any dolphins they encountered.
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The study revealed that, even though young dolphins flit from group to group as often as every ten minutes throughout the day, they tend to spend more time with a few close friends.
More details about the study over at EurekAlert.
(Image Credit: Madison Miketa, PhD, Shark Bay Dolphin Project/ EurekAlert)
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Its not all nice and cute in the world of dolphins - things i've heard i cant even mention on neatorama. Let's just say Dolphins are quite savage.
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they should be forced to not interact with anyone just likethe democrats are forcing us and our children not to untilthe election when it's not going to matter anymore magically
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