【人豚之恋】为了教会海豚说英语与它同居，发生情愫！【郑郑得证】

It is well known that dolphins have highly developed brains second only to humans

So it is called the most intelligent animal on earth besides human beings

An experiment was done in the United States

To see if humans and dolphins can communicate successfully

The experimenter tried to teach the dolphins to talk and live with them

At the end of the experiment, they must face separation

So what choice do dolphins make

Let's take a look at the Strangest love between man and fish in history.

Enter the laboratory

There was a dolphin Point lab in the 1960s on the Island of St. Thomas in the Caribbean

The institute is funded by NASA and Washington

It's led by Dr. John Lilly one of the most eccentric and extreme figures in the history of Marine science

He is also a trained medical doctor and neurologist

John has been working to further investigate the dolphins' communication skills

Because he believes dolphins can help us talk to aliens

The first premise is to let dolphins learn to communicate with humans

In nineteen sixty-one John published a book called Man and the Dolphin

The book highlights the theory that dolphins want to communicate with humans

This sparked interest in the dolphins' ability to speak

So this experiment is coming

By 1963, 20-year-old Margaret was spending Christmas with her family

Margaret has been interested in animals since she was a child. She wants to visit the dolphin lab

The lab's director, Gregory Bateson, invited her to spend some time watching dolphins

Although Margaret didn't have any training

But she seems to be gifted and sensitive to changes in animal behavior

So John and Gregory reached an agreement and invited her to participate in the work of the laboratory.

Unbeknownst to everyone, Margaret will develop a special bond with dolphins

Living with dolphins

With her love of animals and patience, Margaret did an excellent job in the lab

She studies three dolphins

Named Pamela, Cece and Peter, Peter is the only male

Margaret soon formed a friendship with them

She devoted herself to her work every day and spent as much time as possible with the dolphins

The most important thing is to carry out the daily plan

It encourages them to imitate and produce sounds that resemble humans

The experiment, however, was rather tedious and made little progress

Gregory now turned his attention to animal communication

But Margaret didn't want to give up

She decided to continue teaching the dolphins how to talk, and then she decided to change her strategy

Margaret decided to live with the dolphins full-time

The idea was approved by John

They soon finished waterproofing the room

So which dolphin to choose as the experimental subject

Peter, who had never had any voice training, was the perfect guinea pig

Margaret then spent six days a week alone with Peter

On the seventh day, Peter spends the day in the pool with two other females

Margaret and Peter were inseparable during their cohabitation

Margaret tried to understand Peter's ideas and taught him the language as best she could

Today is...

August 18

This is the lesson with Peter this morning

She repeatedly encouraged Peter to say "Hello Margaret"

Margaret

But the letter m seemed too difficult for Peter to learn

Peter looked lost, too

It often turns over and soaks itself in water to show its impatience for learning

So what is their ending?

Dolphin's sexual drive

Margaret gradually discovered that Peter was more interested in the structure of the human body than in learning human language.

When there are no classes they have nothing to do and they often play in the water

According to Margaret, if she was sitting on a stool with her legs in the water

Then Peter would study her legs very carefully. He wanted to see what was behind the knees

He wants to know how humans move their knees when they walk

Soon the experimental group found a thorny problem

It's Peter's sex drive that gets in the way of the human-dolphin communication lesson

You know, Peter's in its adolescence and it's already had some sexual fantasies

It was hard to get Peter back into the pool

Margaret says Peter sticks to himself all the time when he's in heat

It rubs on her knees, feet or hands

Margaret did not feel uncomfortable at this time, so she never refused the behavior

Sometimes, however, Peter would be rude and hurt Margaret

At that time, Margaret would put him on the elevator and let him play with the other two girls

But as Peter grew older, his sexual urges became more frequent

Changing Peter's environment all the time was having a big impact on the experiment, as well as disturbing the other two

So Margaret came up with a good idea

Which is to use her hands to deal with Peter's physical needs

Yes, you heard me right

Margaret said it was a very expensive thing to do and she had a lot of respect for Peter

In her eyes, it's not really a sexual relationship. Other people can also observe this behavior

However, the incident has also caused the media to question

Margaret saw pictures of herself and Peter in magazines and bought them all. But rumors continue to spread

Emergence of LSD

Peter's attachment to Margaret is more obvious, but because the experiment has not progressed, John wants to stop the experiment

In 1966, Dr. John became obsessed with studying the mind-altering power of LSD, with government permission

He was in the lab trying to inject hallucinogens into dolphins

With Margaret's strong Persuasion, John promised not to give Peter an injection.

Fortunately, the drug had almost no effect on dolphins

John gave up after a few tries

But he doesn't take animal safety seriously

This annoyed Gregory, the lab director

Soon, the two people's ideas did not merge and gradually estranged

At the end of 1966, the relationship broke down and John closed the dolphin Lab

Peter and two other dolphins were sent to the Miami lab

Last choice

At the Miami lab, dolphins are kept in small tanks with little sunlight

Unable to bear the change of circumstances and the separation from Margaret, Peter committed suicide a few weeks later

Peter stopped breathing consciously

Margaret married the lab's photographer, and they transformed the dolphinarium and had three daughters

Margaret said in an interview that she did not feel excessively sad about Peter's death because it was a kind of pressure release for it.

In the next few decades, researchers continued to explore the communication between dolphins and humans, but did not teach them to speak

This is the end of the whole experiment

It sounds ridiculous. Dolphins belong to the sea and this kind of experiment is cruel to animals

That is all, see you next time, this is Zheng Zheng