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Informations - Social Structures
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Societies
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Dolphins exist in families known as pods.
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Social structures are based on cooperative and communicative skills, perpetuating the survival of the family.
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Dolphin's societies have long term successful cultures. Their culture is over forty million years. Human culture is only thousands of years old.
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Dolphins exist in a communal sense of awareness. Outside its pod or family dolphins are not complete as a species.
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Dolphins appear to have funerals for their lost ones.
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The older female govern dolphin societies.
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Sex is an important part of the dolphin culture, it's a forms of greeting, play, dominance and aggression.
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In their societies they appear to have freedom of choice.
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Inter-coastal dolphins often spend their whole life in a 40-mile area called a home range, and swim 100 miles a day in it.
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Off shore and near shore dolphins often migrate sometimes thousands of miles.
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