It's a weird, weird world we live in; and this story does nothing to dispel that claim. A woman has had sex with a dolphin. Genuinely, seriously, literally, and all the other adverbs you can think of. So far, so bizarre. Three dolphins were housed in a 'domestic dolphinarium' - essentially a normal house flooded with knee-deep water - in an attempt to bring them closer to their human teachers. But Margaret made a special connection with Peter, the only male dolphin of the group, who she has described as "a young guy" who was "sexually coming of age and a bit naughty". The more time Margaret spent with the naughty male dolphin, the closer he became to her. He would rub himself on my knee, my foot or my hand and I allowed that," she explained.

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A female animal researcher has admitted to sex with a male dolphin during a s NASA-funded experiment. Margaret Howe Lovatt was stationed on the U. She revealed in an upcoming BBC documentary that it was in when a house was flooded to turn it into a dolphinarium, allowing researchers to study the animals at close quarters, according to the Daily Mirror. He would rub himself on my knee, my foot or my hand and I allowed that," she said.
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This article is from the archive of our partner. A relationship that at times became sexual. The emotional attachment between humans and animals is well documented. While I am a dolphin enthusiast, I am also a firm believer that humans and dolphins should not have sex. Investigating the case of Margaret Howe Lovatt and Peter the dolphin, it was a relationship that started out of a logistical problem.
Margaret Howe Lovatt born Margaret C. Howe, in is a volunteer naturalist from Saint Thomas, U. Virgin Islands. In s, she took part in a NASA -funded research project in which she attempted to teach a dolphin named Peter to understand and mimic human speech. As a child, she was inspired by a book called Miss Kelly , a story about a cat that communicated with humans. This inspired her into research in teaching animals to speak the human language. When she was in her early 20s, she lived on the Caribbean Island of St. Thomas, where she had a laboratory to research dolphins.