When female bottlenose dolphins want to avoid males known for pushy mating behaviors, they listen out for their unique signature whistles. That’s the suggestion of a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that tracked a population of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Western Australia.
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Lol, “names”. They are literally names. The ladies avoid the dudes by name.
They spill T about these thugs too, and avoid them because they heard about them, not just because they can personally observe these dudes being rapey towards others.