Cetacean

Alone swimming: Animal swimming more than 1 body length away from another animal.

Alone stationary resting: Stationary at water surface or floor, eye(s) half or fully closed, minimal head orientation movements. 

Synchronous swimming: Dolphin swimming within 1 body length of another dolphin, showing parallel movements and body axes, with only a few seconds delay at most between movements.

Social stationary rest: Stationary Absence of prolonged at water surface or floor, eye(s) half or fully closed, minimal head orientation movements, and within 1 body length of another animal.

Anticipatory behaviour: Animal lifts head out of the water in order to direct eyes towards a point above the surface, which may be where training sessions usually start, or towards people walking around the pool."

Alone play: Play behaviours (e.g., chasing, biting, pushing, jumping) involving an enrichment item, bubble, water, or part of the environment. When a non-enrichment natural or man-made object is in or near the mouth this is defined as an ARB (e.g., regurgitation of a fish).

Social play: Animal engaged in nudging, chasing, attempting to bite, pushing, jumping, all more gently and at lower speeds (< 4m/s, skin not rippling with speed) than agonistic interactions. May involve an object or not, but always another animal. Few prolonged instances of aggressive postures or behaviours, but they occur very briefly during intense play. Rubbing recorded as separate social behaviour.

Social rubbing: One animal rubs body or part of body clearly back and forth against another animal. If the rubbing is focused on the genitals, it is defined as a sexual behaviour.

Sexual behaviour: Animal engages in genital-to-genital contact, touches a genital to another dolphin’s body part, or touches its body part to another animal’s genitals. It may also swim very close to another animal with its rostrum directed at their genitals.

Agonistic behaviour: Agonistic behaviours can be distinguished from rough play since they usually occur at higher speeds (around 4 m/s, skin usually ripples), and may include S-postures; chasing; biting; body slamming; jaw clapping. 

Environmental rubbing: Animal rubs body or part of body clearly back and forth against a part of the environment such as the walls, sand, gates, or pontoons.

Gate behaviours: Animal interacts near or through gates or pylons with con-specific/s in same lagoon, or adjacent lagoon, or stays within 1 body length of the gate even if another animal is not present.

Pattern swimming: Animal swims in the same pattern, where it doesn’t vary from the route and may breathe in the same place. The animal is not alert or vigilant e.g., moving its head when it’s performing the pattern. Observe the dolphin swimming 3 laps of the route, and then start recording it as a pattern swimming behaviour.

Oral Abnormal Repetitive Behaviour: Behaviour that is repetitive, invariant, and doesn't seem to have a function, and is focused on the animal’s mouth e.g., regurgitation, repetitive mouth movements. Record from first instance if a known ARB for that animal, otherwise start after 3 repeats.

Locomotory Abnormal Repetitive Behaviour: Behaviour that is repetitive, invariant, and doesn't seem to have a function, and is based on an animal’s movements e.g., repetitive rubbing. Record from first instance if a known ARB for that animal, otherwise start after 3 repeats. Do not include pattern swimming.

Other behaviour: Any other behaviour not listed.