Biology Professor Glad He Is Not Dolphin

“I have often thought, as I watched their complicated alliance relationships, that their social lives would be mentally and physically exhausting, and I’m glad I’m not a dolphin.”
 — University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth Richard Conner talks Discovery’s Jennifer Viegas about his study of a community of 120 bottlenose dolphins in Western Australia’s Shark Bay. Male dolphins “engage in extensive bisexuality, combined with periods of exclusive homosexuality,” and work in pairs, or sometimes trios, to “sequester and herd” individual females to mate with in mating season.