This chapter focuses on the bow-riding behaviors of dolphins when they ride the bow pressure waves of boats. Dolphins probably have been bow-riding ever since swift vessels plied the seas, propelled by oar, sail, or very recently in the history of seafaring, motor. The Greeks wrote of bow-riding in the eastern Mediterranean and Aegean Seas by what were most likely bottlenose (Tursiops truncatus), common (Delphinus delphis), and striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba). Bow-riding consists of ...
