Comments on: Six In A Pod http://www.seanursery.com/water/173 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:27:19 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Robert V Sobczak http://www.seanursery.com/water/173/comment-page-1#comment-5389 Robert V Sobczak Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:13:50 +0000 http://seanursery.com/water/173#comment-5389 Someone told me that rogue male dolphins often travel alone. I can't attest to validity of that ... Someone told me that rogue male dolphins often travel alone. I can’t attest to validity of that …

]]> By: Jason R http://www.seanursery.com/water/173/comment-page-1#comment-5357 Jason R Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:01:31 +0000 http://seanursery.com/water/173#comment-5357 FWIW, the folks at the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program eschew the term "pod" when referring to dolphins in their study area (shallow, in-shore, Florida waters). As you've noted, bottlenose dolphins do not have a stable, pod-like structure to their social groups. While some individuals seems to form long-term associations, they are all pretty fluid. So what do you call a group of dolphins? In typical research fashion they use the less satisfying term "fission-fusion groups." Makes the researchers sound like physicist and the dolphins sound like elementary particles. :P http://www.sarasotadolphin.org/Social/ FWIW, the folks at the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program eschew the term “pod” when referring to dolphins in their study area (shallow, in-shore, Florida waters). As you’ve noted, bottlenose dolphins do not have a stable, pod-like structure to their social groups. While some individuals seems to form long-term associations, they are all pretty fluid. So what do you call a group of dolphins? In typical research fashion they use the less satisfying term “fission-fusion groups.” Makes the researchers sound like physicist and the dolphins sound like elementary particles. :P

http://www.sarasotadolphin.org/Social/

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