Dolphin ‘killed himself’ after becoming separated from woman who used to have ‘sex’ with him
A young woman had a 'sexual relationship' with a dolphin who later seemed to commit suicide when they were separated.
In the early 1960s, young Margaret Howe Lovatt became part of a NASA-funded project to communicate with dolphins.
The idea was that, given that dolphins have brains that are at least as large as humans, we could develop techniques for communicating with extraterrestrials by learning how the intelligent species "talk" to each other.
Margaret, just 20 at the time, convinced project director Gregory Bateson into letting her work with the dolphins a neuroscientist, John Lilly, was keeping on the Caribbean island of St Thomas.
There were three dolphins, Margaret said, named Peter, Pamela and Sissy.
Margaret later said of the dolphins: "Sissy was the biggest. P...
