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Atlantic Ocean Division University of Florida in the USA, studying the behavior of dolphins, came to to the conclusion that these marine animals are socially similar to there are more people than we expected.
Bottlenose dolphins are known to be the most intelligent creatures on planet after Homo Sapiens. Numerous studies of the life of these marine mammals showed that the social behavior of dolphins very much like people interacting with each other. The other day, scientists from the United States found that dolphins show high selectivity, looking for partners. Previously, many zoologists believed that the choice of partners for bottlenose dolphins occurs spontaneously, since the sole purpose of marine animals is to continue kind of.
Specialists from the Atlantic University of Florida conducted their exploration in the indian river lagoon where wild dolphins. About two hundred adults participated in the observation. individuals. It turned out that most of them live in groups. The most close communication was found in animals living in the narrowest parts of the lagoon. This allowed American researchers to do conclusion that the bulk of the dolphins something makes them go astray small “communities”, each member of which knows others well, showing increased care to neighbors. Just like people in small settlements.
In addition, it turned out that some dolphins prefer voluntarily live alone, not adjacent to any group. The Americans called such individuals hermits. Hermit dolphins have much greater difficulties in finding partners than their kinsmen from “communities”, however, if two such animals find each other friend, such a union, as a rule, lasts until the death of one of them. And again, this is very similar to human behavior.
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