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Understanding dolphin group formations is important for assessing the impacts of fishery bycatch. So, do short-beaked common dolphins in southern Australia associate with their relatives or kin? Why? And what does this mean for their conservation and management?

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Why is it important?

Our findings show that short-beaked common dolphins in southern Australia have social traits more comparable to dolphin species that typically inhabit shallow and more protected environments, such as bottlenose dolphins.

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This page is a summary of: Socio-genetic structure of short-beaked common dolphins in southern Australia, Journal of Zoology, March 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jzo.12330.
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