"The Incredible Ms. Lovatt"
Posted on 06/11/2014 5:44:19 AM PDT by SMGFan
Margaret Howe Lovatt, who worked for the agency in the 1960s, was involved in an experiment to help teach dolphins how to communicate with humans. One of the mammals, Peter, took a liking to her and ‘would rub himself on my knee, my foot or my hand and I allowed that,’ the woman said.
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“Fa love Ma.”
I had heard rumors that Flipper, due to type casting, had trouble getting work after his TV show was cancelled, and eventually started doing porn.
"The Incredible Ms. Lovatt"
She used Wild Tuna perfume!
Yo think that is bad, read about Noel and Knoller, that couple in SF who had the dog that killed their lesbian neighbor. They were having sex with their adopted cop killer inmate friend and their dogs.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=93684
There is another article out there I can’t find at the moment in which Noel defends the actions saying people used to view homosexual relations the way they view bestiality, implying a change will come.
My father was the keeper of the Eddystone light
And he married a mermaid one fine night
Out of this union there came three
A porpoise and a porgy and the other was me!
Yo ho ho
The wind blows free
Oh for a life on the rolling sea!
Wasn’t that in an episode of King of the Hill? A dolphin got up and personal with Hank Hill?
I do not see in the article that she says she did anything. Dolphins do this all the time the problem is they are strong and sometimes they injure tourists in these “swim with the dolphins” places.
What the heck movie is that from? 00 buck to the tv screen!
it’s there, it’s like an itch, she would take care of it and they would move on, gross.
I think it was a comedy from Spain called The Day Of The Beast.
The problem was that, just at the time Peter and Margaret had begun to hammer out a workable relationship, the experiment ended and the lab was closed.
Without funding, the fate of the dolphins was in question. They were shipped to Lilly’s other lab, in a disused bank building in Miami, Florida. It was a far cry from the relative freedom and comfortable surroundings of Dolphin House.
In Miami, Peter quickly deteriorated, and after a few weeks Margaret received the shocking news that Peter had committed suicide by refusing to breathe, and sinking to the bottom of his tank.
Was it the change in his surroundings, or could it have been that he was pining for the human he had grown so close to?
Vet Andy Williamson puts Peter’s death down to a broken heart, brought on by a separation from Margaret that he didn’t understand: ‘Margaret could rationalise it, but when she left, could Peter? Here’s the love of his life gone.’
Dolphins may not speak English — but, just like humans, they know all about broken hearts.
After the experiment with Peter ended, Margaret Howe left the laboratory and married the project’s photographer, John Lovatt.
Dr Lilly, although mocked by much of the scientific establishment, continued his researches into communication between humans and dolphins into the Eighties (he died in 2001).
He investigated other ways to talk to them, even attempting to use telepathy.
But after the extraordinary events in that sun-drenched laboratory in the Virgin Islands, no one ever tried to teach dolphins to speak English again.
Sounds like the Bill Clinton of dolphins.
Pretty much my thoughts. I didnt watch the video, but a headline writer may need a remedial birds and bees.
Just an alternative life style?
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