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Bottle-nosed dolphin ( Tursiops truncatus )

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Subphylum: Vertebrata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Cetacea

Suborder: Odontoceti

Family: Delphinidae

Genus: Tursiops

Tursiops truncatus is found in warm temperate and tropical oceans and seas worldwide. In waters of the United States, bottlenosed dolphins range as far north as Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in the summer and in the west to Point Conception, California. Year-round they can be found off the coasts of Hawaii and Florida.
Tursiops truncatus is a distinctly social species, usually traveling in groups of as many as a dozen, but they have been seen in aggregations of several hundred. Most populations do not migrate, but travel widely to find food or locate waters of preferred temperature. They swim at speeds of approximately 12 miles per hour.

Бутилконосият делфин е най-популярния представител сред фамилията Delphinadae и може би най-интелигентния бозайник след човека и човекоподобните маймуни. А може би и преди тях в някой отношения.
Както бе казъл някой... "един ден делфините заключили че човеците не са разбрали посланието им и просто излетяли обратно за там от където са дошли"