A very brief presentation on some of the implications striped dolphin social behavior has for human society and scientific study. Music: Heart of the Giant from Ecco: Songs of Time.

1. Stenella coeruleoalba
Genus: Stenella
Family: Delphinidae
Sub-Order: Odontoceti
Order: Cetacea
o Echolocation, complex
vocalizations
o Active, frequent play behavior
o Cooperative feeding in similar
species
o Varied group structures and
social behaviors

2. -Gaspari et. al.
Findings
o Different populations (inshore and
offshore, different seas)
o Smaller groups show higher kinship
o Females associate with adult kin
“Social kin associations and genetic
structuring of striped dolphin
populations (Stenella coeruleoalba) in
the Mediterranean Sea”

3. Myths
o Arion and the Corinthian sailors
o Apollo and dolphins
Accounts
o Befriending children
(Puteoli, Iasus, Naupactus, etc.)
o Cooperative fishing (Latera
Lake, Aegean Sea)

4. o Contributions to sciences
o Behavioral, cognitive, ecological, marine mammal etc.
o Impacts on human society
o Why do dolphins help or take interest in humans?
o Understanding human behavior
o Similarities to dolphins

5. BibliographyInformation
Carwardine, Mark, Erich Hoyt, R. Ewan Fordyce, and Peter Gill. A Guide to Whales, Dolphins &
Porpoises. San Francisco: Fog City Press, 1998.
Devine, Eleanore; Clark, Martha. The Dolphin Smile: Twenty-Nine Centuries of Dolphin Lore. New York:
The Macmillan Company, 1967.
Gaspari, S., Azzellino, A., Airoldi, S., & Hoelzel, A. R. “Social kin associations and genetic structuring of
striped dolphin populations ( Stenella coeruleoalba) in the Mediterranean Sea.” Molecular Ecology 16,
no. 14 (2007): 2922-33.
“Striped Dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba).” NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources. <
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/mammals/cetaceans/stripeddolphin.htm>
Images
Casselman, Bill. “Words of the World.”
<http://www.billcasselman.com/new_July_2012/dolphin_words.htm>
Culik, Boris. “Stenella coeruleoalba.” <
http://www.cms.int/reports/small_cetaceans/data/S_ceoruleoalba/s_coeruleoalba.htm>
“Dolphins.” <http://www.yachtmollymawk.com/2010/03/dolphins/>
Exekias. Dionysus Cup. c. 540 BC. Museum Antiker Kleinkunst, Munich. <http://shelton.berke
ley.edu/painting/Images-BF.html>
Kirby, David. “Marcos the Abandoned Baby Dolphin.” January 25, 2013.
<http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/01/25/marcos-dolphin>
“The Stages of Animal Rights Activism.” <http://coveblueforjiyu.com/tag/dolphin/>