Bottlenose Dolphin (IMAGE)

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Bottlenose Dolphin

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Did early settlers of Panama's Las Perlas Islands hunt bottlenose and common dolphins? Archaeologists think they may have driven dolphins onshore to harvest them more easily.

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Sean Mattson, STRI

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