Female Dolphins
In female dolphins, the integument, sternos, breathe, total muscle, ribs, sternum,
scapulae, hyoids, pelvic bones, total skeleton, larynx, lungs, thyroid, liver, trachea,
thymus, mesenteric lymph nodes, spleen, adrenals, reproductive tract, ovaries, and
mammary glands all grew isometrically; the skull, vertebral column, pectoral flippers,
brain, heart, kidneys, urinary bladder, intact head, and fluke lobes grew at negative
allometric rates; and the locomotor, axial, abdominal, and shoulder musclegroups and
the pancreas, stomach, and intestines grew at positive allometric rates. In males, the
integument, sternos muscle group, ribs, sternum, scapulae, hyoids, pelvic bones,
lungs, larynx, mesenteric lymph nodes, spleen and whole head have isometry; the
skull, vertebral column, pectoral flippers, total skeleton, brain, heart, trachea, thymus,
thyroid, kidneys, adrenals, urinary bladder, and fluke lobes all grew at negative
allometric rates; and the locomotor, axial, abdominal, shoulder, breathe and total
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Male and female bottlenose dolphins shared the same or similar allometric
growths in nearly all body parts and changes in body part PBMs in each stage of
maturity, but the integument, shoulder and breathe muscle groups, pelvic bones,
ribs, urinary bladder, fluke lobes, and head parts did not keep similar PBM in both
genders; the integument, pectoral flippers, and brain grew at faster rates in females;
and the axial and total muscle, lungs, and liver grew at faster rates in males,
contradicting the hypothesis. A better execution to this study would have been to
make a hypothesis for each body part and mass individually. With such a large
amount of data originating from a broad range of sources, it is difficult to sum it up
into a simple, truthful