11/23/2017
Much like a suitor woos his object of desire with a bouquet of roses, dolphins do so with sponges. Researchers have captured this rare behaviour: ...
Dolphins off the West Australian coast are observed offering up presents to females and cultivating wing man relationships to help each other score a mate.
After over a decade of observing the behaviours of wild humpback dolphins, a group of Australian scientists have made a ground-breaking new discovery - dolphin's use wingmen! It turns out that humans aren't the only ones who sometimes need a helping hand when they're out on the pull, apparently ...
11/22/2017
PERTH - Much like a suitor woos his object of desire with a bouquet of roses, dolphins do so with sponges. Researchers have captured this rare ...
Much like a suitor woos his object of desire with a bouquet of roses, dolphins do so with sponges. Researchers have captured this rare behaviour: male humpback dolphins presenting females with large marine sponges in an apparent effort to mate. The researchers had observed a male dolphin dive ...
If you thought that only men like attracting women with stunning presents, you were wrong. A group of marine biologists has observed the mating process of dolphins on the northwest coast of Australia and they recorded an uncommon event, where male dolphins attract female dolphins by offering them ...
Like humans, dolphins have complex mating rituals. They sing, jump in the air, and now it appears that some dolphins will give sponges as gifts in order to attract a sexual partner. In many animals, males try to display their fitness to females before mating. That can mean displaying bright feathers, ...
According to the university, the initial observation of the behavior involved an Australian humpback dolphin female, her calf, and a male suitor.
The complex social behavior of dolphins never ceases to amaze me. They hang out in cliques, they remember their friends even after decades apart, and are often more humane than we are. But being really smart doesn't really prevent you from looking like a complete fool when you're in love, it turns ...
11/21/2017
It's not just humans who give each other gifts, or use wingmen, in a bid to get laid. Male humpback dolphins try their hand, or er, fin at it too, presenting ...
Their dynamic, huge brains allow them to have complex conversations, and some scientists think the only thing that's held back dolphin society from ...
Somewhere an Australian humpback dolphin is shaking his head, and wondering when we're going to come to our senses. Because, in dolphin ...
Male dolphins (and birds, and humans for that matter) offer gifts as a form of peacocking. It's a superfluous activity that's completely outside the needs of day-to-day survival, so it serves as a conspicuous display of a male's abundant physical and cognitive resources. And indeed, the collecting of large ...
Scientists have captured footage of humpback male dolphins off the coast of Western Australia presenting females with large marine sponges in an ...
A team of Australian scientists accidentally discovered a humpback dolphin offering a large sponge to apparently attract a female. Vision: University of ...
Many a man has tried to woo a woman with gifts, and it seems that this practice even occurs in dolphins. Scientists have observed male humpback dolphins presenting females with large marine sponges in an effort to mate. They have also spotted them using a 'wingman' to help get the attention of a ...
They documented adult male Australian humpback dolphins presenting large marine sponges to females, as well as performing visual and acoustic displays. It's the first time the behaviour has been documented in this species. Their first observation was between a male and female dolphin and her calf.
It seems dating in the sea is just as complex as on land, with male dolphins off the West Australian coast observed offering up presents to females and cultivating "wing man" relationships to help each other score a mate. Researchers have examined coastal dolphins off the State's north coast and found ...
11/20/2017
Forget a bouquet of flowers or box of chocolates, it seems sea sponges are all the rage amongst West Australian male dolphins looking for a possible mate. University of Western Australia researchers have captured unusual evidence of adult male Australian humpback dolphins offering "gifts" to their ...
Researchers have captured male humpback dolphins presenting females with large marine sponges in an apparent effort to mate. Scientists from ...