Dolphins display memory better than elephants

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Forget elephants. Dolphins can swim circles around them when it comes to long-term memory.

Scientists in a new study repeatedly found that dolphins can remember the distinctive whistle made by another dolphin they haven’t seen in two decades. The whistle acts as a name to the marine mammal.

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