Nonreproductive Sexual Behavior in Baleen Whales: Sexual Harassment by an Adult Male on a Calf in Southern Right Whales (Eubalaena australis)
| Autor: | Juan M. Goity, Alexis Fioramonti, Mariana Degrati, Valeria Carina D'agostino, Cristian Campos, Fernando Varsky |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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050103 clinical psychology
030505 public health Adult male biology Eubalaena australis Otras Ciencias Biológicas 05 social sciences EUBALAENA AUSTRALIS Aquatic Science biology.organism_classification Ciencias Biológicas Fishery 03 medical and health sciences Baleen SEXUAL HARASSMENT Sexual behavior ADULT MALE NONREPRODUCTIVE SEXUAL BEHAVIOR Harassment 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Animal Science and Zoology 0305 other medical science CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS Nature and Landscape Conservation |
| Zdroj: | Aquatic Mammals. 43:213-218 |
| ISSN: | 0167-5427 |
| DOI: | 10.1578/am.43.2.2017.213 |
| Popis: | We describe a sexual harassment by an adult male southern right whale to a conspecific calf while on the calving and mating grounds near PV. Sexual harassment is defined in this paper as the behavior of an adult male pursuing a calf with apparent intention to copulate. Observations were made opportunistically from the whale-watching motor vessel. The southern right whale group included a mother calf pair and a solitary individual second adult. The second adult seemed to be chasing the calf which was swimming rapidly on its left side at 5 m average distance from the second adult / pursuing whale. while the calf was positioned above the second adult, this second adult introduced his penis into the calf?s genital slit (see supplementary online underwater video S1).Copulation attempts between an adult male baleen whale and a calf has not been previously reported in the literature. The observations described here indicate that nonreproductive copulation attempts between a southern right whale adult male and a conspecific calf occurred near PV in the calving and mating grounds. Fil: D'agostino, Valeria Carina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Centro Nacional Patagónico. Centro para el Estudio de Sistemas Marinos; Argentina Fil: Fioramonti, Alexis. Proyecto Patagonia Documental; Argentina Fil: Varsky, Fernando. Proyecto Patagonia Documental; Argentina Fil: Campos, Cristian. Proyecto Patagonia Documental; Argentina Fil: Goity, Juan M.. Whales Argentina; Argentina Fil: Degrati, Mariana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Centro Nacional Patagónico. Centro para el Estudio de Sistemas Marinos; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia; Argentina |
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