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And here comes bad ghost
and poltergeist.
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There ' s wow resting at the surface.
There ' s myrtle, there ' s hobo.
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Www and horton?
Beautiful, look at that! All together.
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Connor is
especially intrigued
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by relationships
between the males
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to him, it's like cracking
the code of a secret society
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they follow a
mature male with
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a jagged dorsal fin
named "bottom hook"
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he's usually observed swimming
with another male called "pointer"
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they're almost inseparable forming
what connor calls an alliance
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some of these alliances last
for a dozen years or more
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today a female is seen
swimming between them
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as if she's being herded
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in fact, she is
their captive
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they guard her night and day
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very rarely do you see the female
off to the side from the males
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they like to keep her
between them
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that basically eliminates
avenues of escape for her
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we've seen them keep females
for over a month at a time
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bottomhook and pointer
are vigilant
:15:18
their strategy is to keep her
from mating with other males
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to limit the female's
choice to themselves
:15:28
we've often seen
the males use alot of
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aggression to keep
the female with them.
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Even so, it's likely that the
female wants to mate
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with these males as well as
other males in the bay
:15:40
the males are trying
to sequester
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the female simply
to increase the chance
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that they will be
the father of the offspring
:15:46
eventually, the hungry males
must break formation to feed
:15:55
pointer races
off to chase a fish
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it's a risky move
because in the