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Dolphins

Pod of bottlenose dolphins swimming in sea.

Bottlenose dolphins are native to New Zealand, but they live in all the temperate oceans of the world.

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Rights: Stephen Wing, University of Otago
Published: 26 January 2016Size: 910.63 KB
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