Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0346313

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0346313

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The roles of relatedness and reproductive success in complex social systems of dolphins. Theories of the role of genetic relatedness and reproductive success in mammalian social behaviour have mostly been restricted to primates and carnivores. Coexisting alternative strategies within one population of bottlenose dolphins (Shark Bay WA) offer unprecedented opportunities for such investigations. The male alliances? complexity is unparalleled outside humans, and may require new theory. Some female lineages show tool-use - rare outside humans, and virtually unknown in marine species. Our behavioural and genetic database has exceptional size, detail and duration for marine mammals, and is most valuable if continued while known individuals' offspring reach a stage where they can be sampled.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-02-2003

End Date: 30-06-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $300,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Sociobiology And Behavioural Ecology | Conservation And Biodiversity | Population And Ecological Genetics | Genetics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Living resources (flora and fauna) | Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Biological sciences | Conservation And Biodiversity | Genetics | Living resources (flora and fauna) | Population And Ecological Genetics | Sociobiology And Behavioural Ecology

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