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Dolphins are interesting. Researchers tried to get someone living with one in a waist high pool all day to teach it language humans could understand. Funding s
by ehhhhhhhhh 4y ago
Dolphins are interesting. Researchers tried to get someone living with one in a waist high pool all day to teach it language humans could understand. Funding started running out, so the researcher started giving it handjobs and LSD. No luck. Source:
https://boingboing.net/2013/06/18/dolphins-on-acid-and-other-ba.html https://boingboing.net/2013/06/18/dolphins-on-acid-and-other...
- dTal 4y agoYou misrepresent the scenario to the point of fabrication; while each event you describe did individually (sort of) happen, the narrative is all scrambled. And your "source" is just a link to another article, which 404s. Wikipedia link, for the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Howe_Lovatt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Howe_Lovatt
- hackernewds 4y agoFascinating information to supplement. However the Wikipedia doesn't produce any citations either, so tough to accept human edits as truth. additionally, the Wikipedia article actually doesn't contradict what ehhhhhh commented.
- feet 4y agoThe article lists four citations, not sure why you claim there are none?
- pawsforthought 4y agoThis article from The Atlantic gives some more context to the delphinophilia: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/how-a-science-experiment-led-to-sexual-encounters-for-a-woman-and-a-dolphin/372606/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/ho...
- pictiPig 4y agoRadiolab had an episode interviewing Margaret Howe, which was very informative if my memory serves. https://radiolab.org/episodes/hello-podmash https://radiolab.org/episodes/hello-podmash
- pvaldes 4y agoI would not discard that funding started running out after seen how they were spending the money on turning the dolphins into party animals.