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Bottlenose dolphin

Tursiops truncatus

Passes mirror self-recognition tests. There's no measured neuron count for the bottlenose dolphin.

Neurons

No published count

Evidence

• Dolphins pass mirror self-recognition tests.
  Reiss D, Marino L (2001) Mirror self-recognition in the bottlenose dolphin: A case of cognitive convergence. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 98(10):5937-5942. doi:10.1073/pnas.101086398.

The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness (2024) finds strong scientific support for conscious experience in mammals and birds.

Assess it against the published criteria