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Dolphins are mammals, not fish. And mammals breathe with lungs, not gills.

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A dolphin does not have gills. It is a mammal just like people. They must come up to the surface to breathe.

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Whales are mammals. Mammals have lungs, not gills.

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dolphins are mammals just like us they have lungs not gills. they use the little blowholes to breath and since water gets in them they also remove the water out the same way they breathe.

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Lungs becase they are mammals and mammals don't have gills .

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No. No mammals have gills.

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