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Bottlenose dolphins can recognize themselves in a mirror and use it to see different parts of their bodies.

Get ready to be disillusioned. When you think of bottlenose dolphins, what comes to mind?

Bottlenose dolphins have been observed to breach up to 16 feet (4. 9 meters) out of the water, landing with a splash on their back or side.

Deepwater Horizon oil was confirmed to be on six bottlenose dolphins, one had an unknown oil and two have not been tested.

They are trying to save nearly 200 stranded pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins.

For two years, she'd been watching the injured bottlenose dolphin named Winter swim around the tank.

Six bottlenose dolphins were leaping in and out of the water, stirring up whitecaps.

Bottlenose and Guyana dolphins, two distantly related species, often come together to socialise in waters off the coast of Costa Rica.

A cross between a false killer whale and an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, wholphins are hybrids that have been reported to exist in the wild.

Caption : Bottlenose Dolphins: Possibly the most bisexual animal on earth, bottlenose dolphins engage in frequent same-sex sexual activity.

The makers of the documentary used expert divers and hi-tech gadgets to film the slaughter of bottlenose dolphins and pilot whales.

Throughout their lives, bottlenose dolphins are mostly bisexual with periods of exclusive homosexuality.

Scientists have discovered a biological quirk in bottlenose dolphins that could lead to a treatment for late-onset diabetes in humans.

Here in the Bahamas, these two bottlenose are picking a fight with this spotted dolphin, probably just to establish their dominance.

Bottlenose dolphins are found in tropical oceans and other warm waters around the globe.

For example, several species, including bottlenose dolphins, seem to use same-sex behaviours to promote social bonding.

The elongated upper and lower jaws give the animals their name of bottlenose ? their face shows a characteristic "smile" .

Dr Noren studied the behaviour of captive bottlenose dolphins in Hawaii swimming underwater, both alone and in mother-and-calf pairs.

Bottlenose dolphins travel in social groups and communicate with each other by a complex system of squeaks and whistles.

In April 1979 National Geographic magazine published a picture of Iki's bloody cove, showing bottlenose dolphins strewn on the beach.

here, a bottlenose whale is prepared for delivery as Japanese men cut meat into manageable blocks.

All dolphins, including the bottlenose, are porpoises.

In addition, the fishermen kill pilot whales, which are technically dolphins but aren't as recognizable as their bottlenose cousins.

By comparison, the bottlenose dolphin has extremely keen vision in water.

Sixty-seven bottlenose dolphins have washed up on Gulf beaches over the past few weeks.

We were checking up on the highest known density of bottlenose dolphins in the Mediterranean Sea.

Some 90 per cent of bottlenose dolphins in Monterey Bay are suffering from an outbreak of skin lesions - and nobody knows why.

Bottlenose dolphins track their prey through the expert use of echolocation.

"I wouldn't be too surprised to find such cunning and devilish ploys being adopted by Shark Bay's bottlenose dolphins. "

Before a bottlenose will attack, it engages in the behavior called 'jaw clapping'. This is a clear visual and audible threat.

bottlenose dolphin found in the Pacific Ocean.

Just ask Merlin the bottlenose dolphin.

The program trains about 75 Pacific bottlenose dolphins, with natural biosonar that tracks better than any manmade device;

Conservationists say the largest generation of military sonar being used by Nato threatens the North Sea's whales and bottlenose dolphins

Delphinids include such well known dolphins as bottlenose dolphins and common dolphins as well as killer whales and pilot whales. delphinids

Bottlenose Dolphin and Calf

The medical care of bottlenose dolphins in quarantine