Richard Connor & Mike Heithaus at Florida International University in North 
Miami, FL, are looking for a Ph.D. student to work on foraging behavior and 
habitat use in male Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Western 
Australia. The student will extend previous work in the eastern gulf showing 
that male alliances with overlapping ranges forage in different habitats 
(O’Brien et al. 2000, see also Bizzozzero et al. 2019), quantifying foraging 
behavior and examining how different foraging tactics influence mate guarding. 
The student would enter the FIU program in Fall 2023, but field work may begin 
during the northern summer (southern winter) 2023, pending funding. Candidates 
with field experience and a master’s degree strongly preferred. The candidate 
will need to obtain certification to operate a drone in Western Australia, so 
drone experience is also valued.

For more information on the site and previous work in Shark Bay visit:
http://www.sharkbaydolphins.org/publications/

https://mikeheithaus.com/research/publications/

O'Brien*, O; Allen, SA; Krützen, M & RC Connor. 2020. Alliance-specific habitat 
selection by male dolphins in Shark Bay, Western Australia. Animal Behaviour 
164: 39-49.

Bizzozzero, MR, Allen, SJ; Gerber, L; Wild, S.; King, SL; Connor, RC, Friedman, 
WR; Wittwer, S and M Krützen. 2019. Tool use and alliance partner choice among 
male bottlenose dolphins. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: 
Biological Sciences doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0898
Contact: Richard Connor, rcon...@fiu.edu

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