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Dolphins are popularly noted for their grace, intelligence, playfulness, and friendliness to humans. Bottlenose dolphins, familiar performers in oceanariums, have become the subject of scientific studies because of their intelligence, ability to communicate, and long social memory and for demonstrating the ability to recognize their reflections, suggesting a degree of self-awareness.

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