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> "We found that juvenile play involves immature versions of adult reproductive behaviors that are crucial for males to access and mate with estrous females, an
by xeonmc 2y ago
> "We found that juvenile play involves immature versions of adult reproductive behaviors that are crucial for males to access and mate with estrous females, and the time spent doing these play behaviors predicts how many offspring males eventually sire as adults."
> Adult male dolphins in Shark Bay form long-term alliances to help each other secure access to females and these alliances are formed between males who were closely bonded as juveniles. As adults, pairs or trios of allied males will coordinate their behavior to consort individual females, and this work shows that young males practice this coordination with their likely future allies, years before they become sexually mature.
In summary, dolphins that do practice-gangbangs in their youth tends to have more offsprings as adults.
- colechristensen 2y ago> allied males will coordinate their behavior to consort individual females Yeah there are different ways to phrase this which might be more appropriate considering the behavior and likely intelligence of dolphins. Apparently a lot of marine biologists really hate dolphins.
- droopyEyelids 2y agoI really roll my eyes at the marine bio dislike of dolphins which seems to boil down to “they do things they know are bad” Coming from a human, that reeks of someone hating someone else for reflecting their own flaws.
- therobots927 2y agoIt was only after how many thousands of years after the wheel was invented that women got the right to vote? I agree. It’s ridiculous to judge dolphins. They don’t even cultivate crops yet!
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> after how many thousands of years after the wheel was invented that women got the right to vote The Haudanashonee clan mothers, Cleopatra, Kush queen mothers and Anasazi at Chaco might like to have a word on that.
- therobots927 2y agoFair point
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- mock-possum 2y agoWhat the fuck
- paganel 2y agoThey shouldn’t have become scientists, then, if they bring morals with them when studying animals.
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- yieldcrv 2y ago“secure access to females” ok lol. this is masqueraded as science but just projecting their desires and the exclusion and frustration the researchers are feeling interpersonally. given how popular the choice of linguistics is amongst the excluded crowd, they should have spent more time socializing.