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Post by Cullyn Of Cerrmor on Jun 10, 2014 21:31:49 GMT 9.5
The woman who taught a dolphin to speak - and then found it had fallen in love with her
Margaret Howe lived with a dolphin for ten weeks in the 60s
The aim was for her to teach Peter, a bottlenose, to speak English
He learned a few words, but mainly, Peter fell in love with her
By HARRY MOUNT PUBLISHED: 09:26 AEST, 10 June 2014 | UPDATED: 18:29 AEST, 10 June 2014Of all the weird and wonderful events of the 1960s, few are as strange as an animal experiment that took place on the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1965. For ten weeks, in a charming villa on the island of St Thomas, overlooking the Caribbean, Dr John C. Lilly, a neurologist, tried to teach a six-year-old dolphin to speak English. His 23-year-old assistant, Margaret Howe, a Virgin Islands local, would live, day and night, with Peter, a bottlenose dolphin. And they would eat, bathe, sleep and play together in complete isolation. Read More: Follow us: @mailonline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook Talk about a mixed Marriage, that dolphin is really mixed up.
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