{"id":848,"date":"2012-03-30T18:45:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T18:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gay.blogs.cam4.com\/?p=848"},"modified":"2012-03-30T18:45:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T18:45:14","slug":"us-scientific-study-claims-male-dolphins-are-bisexual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/2012\/03\/us-scientific-study-claims-male-dolphins-are-bisexual\/","title":{"rendered":"US scientific study claims male dolphins are bisexual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The researchers studied more than 120 bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Western Australia, and discovered relationships of a considerably more complex nature than previously thought. Co-author of the study, Richard Connor, told Discovery News that the dolphins engaged in extensive bisexuality, combined with periods of exclusive homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI work on the male dolphins and their social lives are very intense. It seems there is constant drama. I have often thought, as I watched their complicated alliance relationships, that their social lives would be mentally and physically exhausting, and I\u2019m glad I\u2019m not a dolphin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Connor\u2019s team also discovered that dolphins pair-up or swim in groups of three in order to herd individual females during mating season.<\/p>\n<p>The results ultimately found that most male dolphins are also members of \u201csecond order alliances\u201d which contain between four and 14 males. One gang, with seven members, has been swimming together since 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Connor said that though the males are \u201ccapable of serious aggression,\u201d they rarely fought and were not exceptionally\u00a0territorial.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2012\/03\/29\/us-scientific-study-claims-male-dolphins-are-bisexual\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Pinknews+%28Pink+News%29\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/files\/2012\/03\/dolphin.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-849\" title=\"dolphin\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/files\/2012\/03\/dolphin.jpeg?resize=220%2C176&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The researchers studied more than 120 bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Western Australia, and discovered relationships of a considerably more complex nature than<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-humor","news-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}