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Also Known As	bottle-nosed dolphin • Tursiops

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Bottlenose dolphins

Bottlenose dolphin

Bottle-nosed dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

bottlenose dolphins

A dolphin on a background of graph paper, with a blue line chart trending downwards and four types of fish surrounding it.

Observe social interactions of bottlenose dolphins at Scandola Nature Reserve on the coast of Corsica, also home to crabs and lobsters and other marine life

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