![]() He would rub himself on my knee, my foot or my hand and I allowed that," she explained.īut, being the "rambunctious" adolescent that Peter was, it soon became too disruptive to send him down the elevator of the dolphinarium to 'play' with his female fellow species and rid him of his urges. The more time Margaret spent with the naughty male dolphin, the closer he became to her. In a BBC4 documentary, The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins, Margaret spoke out about her 'experience' for the first time in five decades. But Margaret made a special connection with Peter, the only male dolphin of the group, who she has described as "a young guy" who was "sexually coming of age and a bit naughty". Three dolphins were housed in a 'domestic dolphinarium' - essentially a normal house flooded with knee-deep water - in an attempt to bring them closer to their human teachers. Genuinely, seriously, literally, and all the other adverbs you can think of.īack in the 1960s (a decade where pretty much anything went, so fair dos) animal researcher Margaret Howe Lovatt took part in an experiment funded by NASA which attempted to teach sea creatures how to speak English. It's a weird, weird world we live in and this story does nothing to dispel that claim.
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