Young woman's warped sex with 'naughty' dolphin who 'killed himself' when she left
dailystar.co.ukREAD 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.
Although Margaret worked with all three, she was given Peter as the individual dolphin she was expected to form a bond with.And just like a human love affair, gradually Peter and Margaret fell for each other.
Speaking decades later about her experiences of the project, she told of how Peter "became jealous" if she spent too much time with Pamela and Sissy.As part of the experiment, Margaret had to 'move in' with Peter and lived with him six days a week in his tank.
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