From: "edbond" <ed@bond3921.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <erich.hoyt@virgin.net>, <pita@whale.wheelock.edu>
Subject: Unusual query on dolphins
Date: Wed, Dec 10, 2003, 7:30 AM
Dear Erich,
If you have a moment, I would like to ask a rather unusual question with
regard to dolphins. I have been asked to research the matter for a friend
who has spent a fair amount of time filming dolphins.
I understand that certain marine fish are or are capable of being
hermaphrodites and therefore may reproduce asexually. I would like to know
whether dolphins may do the same. I am aware that dolphins are mammals and
I would think that, as a result, they would reproduce sexually and it would
be impossible for dolphins to be hermaphrodites.
I would be most grateful to know the answer to my query.
Many thanks
Ed
I can assure you that there are no dolphins capable of reproducing
asexually.
Erich Hoyt
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