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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Dolphins in Captivity, the ethics of keeping them in captivity since dolphins are self-aware like humans, they deserve the same basic rights, "cultural transmission" of their hunting style of "beaching" mullet and then eating them, high cognitive abilities as do chimps, the ethics of keeping them in captivity with two sides in research non-intrusive, observational studies, high cognitive abilities such as Self Awareness: can recognize their own reflection, Complex vocabulary and "syntax": order within sentence, understanding two artificial languages based on hand gestures, dolphins are self-aware like humans, they deserve the same basic rights which could also apply to other self-aware animals, boring for the animals which could lead to premature death, problem solving for example Recovering rocekets and mines under water (for the U.S. Navy), high cognitive abilities such as "cultural transmission", of "beaching" mullet and then eating them which requires learning the technique from "elders" in the pod, Complex vocabulary and individual signature to their whistles, Dolphins exhibit high cognitive abilities, high cognitive abilities as do humans, non-intrusive, observational studies where scientists observe dolphins in the wild and let the dolphins come to the scientists by choice, the ethics of keeping them in captivity with the Survival rate in captivity being lower than the survival rate in the wild, high cognitive abilities such as Complex vocabulary, processing emotions linked to their complex neocortex, humans which are all highly social animals