Richard ConnorSummaryAffiliation: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Country: USA Publications
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A division of labour with role specialization in group-hunting bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) off Cedar Key, FloridaStefanie K Gazda
Biology Department, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA 02747, USA
Proc Biol Sci 272:135-40. 2005..These differences between the two groups may reflect differences in group stability or in prey school size...- Complex social structure, alliance stability and mating access in a bottlenose dolphin 'super-alliance'R C Connor
Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, 02747, USA
Proc Biol Sci 268:263-7. 2001..Further, within the super-alliance, alliance stability correlates with consortship rate, suggesting that differentiated relationships within the super-alliance are based on competition for access to females... - Cooperation beyond the dyad: on simple models and a complex societyRichard C Connor
UMASS Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA 02747, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 365:2687-97. 2010..A system of nested male alliances in bottlenose dolphins illustrates the potential and difficulties of finding a complex system of cooperation close to our own... - Invested, extracted and byproduct benefits: a modified scheme for the evolution of cooperationRichard Connor
Biology Department, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA 02747, USA
Behav Processes 76:109-13. 2007 - Dolphin social intelligence: complex alliance relationships in bottlenose dolphins and a consideration of selective environments for extreme brain size evolution in mammalsRichard C Connor
Biology Department, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA 02747, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 362:587-602. 2007..In this context, social competition, and consequently selection for greater cognitive abilities and large brain size, was intense... - A new level of complexity in the male alliance networks of Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.)Richard C Connor
Biology Department, UMASS Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA 02747, USA
Biol Lett 7:623-6. 2011..These findings challenge the 'two alliance tactics' hypothesis and add to the evidence that Shark Bay male bottlenose dolphins engage in alliance formation that likely places considerable demands on their social cognition... - Cetaceans have complex brains for complex cognitionLori Marino
Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Program, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
PLoS Biol 5:e139. 2007 - 'O father: where art thou?'--Paternity assessment in an open fission-fusion society of wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) in Shark Bay, Western AustraliaMichael Krützen
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia
Mol Ecol 13:1975-90. 2004..01). Our study suggests that the reproductive success of both allied males, and of nonallied juveniles, needs to be incorporated into an adaptive framework that seeks to explain alliance formation in male bottlenose dolphins... - Cultural transmission of tool use in bottlenose dolphinsMichael Krützen
School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:8939-43. 2005.... - Contrasting relatedness patterns in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) with different alliance strategiesMichael Krützen
School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia
Proc Biol Sci 270:497-502. 2003..Thus, within one population and one sex, it appears that there may be simultaneous operation of more than one mode of group formation...