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READ MORE: Horrifying moment teenager attacked by spider monkeys after she repeatedly hit enclosureAnd like the most doomed love affairs, when it ended, one of the pair was so devastated they apparently took their own life.Margaret's strange relationship with Peter began when she took part in an experiment in the early 1960s.Aged just 20, she was part of a NASA-funded project to see how much humans could communicate with dolphins with a view to one day using this knowledge to start 'talking' to extraterrestrials from other planets.Scientists believed that because dolphins have brains that are at least as large as ours, and that developing ways of communicating with them could open the door to talking with other intelligent species. The project took place on the idyllic Caribbean island of St Thomas and was run by neuroscientist John Lilly.There were three dolphins: Peter, Pamela and Sissy.

Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!A young woman had a sexual relationship with a "naughty" dolphin who later seemed to commit suicide when their affair came to an end.In the early 1960s, young Margaret Howe Lovatt talked her way into becoming 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 ours – we could develop techniques for communicating with extraterrestrials by learning how the intelligent species “talk” to each other.Margaret, just 20, charmed project director Gregory Bateson into letting her work with the dolphins neuroscientist John Lilly was keeping on the Caribbean island of St Thomas.There were three dolphins,