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Recent research has revealed that dolphins have complex communications and social structures. Reiss is among the scientists trying to learn how these animals think and communicate. She is a professor in the department of psychology at Hunter College, City University of New York, and in the animal behavior and comparative psychology doctoral program at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Reiss’ research focuses on dolphin cognition, communication, comparative animal cognition and the evolution of intelligence. Reiss pioneered the use of underwater keyboards with dolphins to investigate their cognitive and communicative abilities.
Working at the National Aquarium in Baltimore and the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., Reiss and her colleagues also established that bottlenose dolphins and Asian elephants possess the rare ability for mirror self-recognition previously thought to be restricted to humans and apes.
Her book, “The Dolphin in the Mirror,” was released in 2011.
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