I had read about these stories separately, the consensual, interspecies sex and the dolphin suicide, but for some reason I failed to realized or had forgotten it was the same dolphin.
I admit I sort of fail to understand the outrage about the sex thing and about the attempt to teach it English. I'm probably naïve but I still think some basic form of communication should be possible, like with great apes.
Here are the remains of Dolphin House,
https://zoom.earth/#18.318131,-64.859424,19z,sat
We used to sail past it in the 1970s, and the buildings were abandoned but had roofs then. Back in 2011 there were plans to develop the area but I guess they fell through. Back then the risque part of the story was well known, though the LSD experiments were not. They had it all backwards, the LSD should have generated an outcry instead. Mammals are similar enough that the scent of female human would surely provoke such a response.
I very highly recommend reading up on Dr. John Lilly, easily one of the most interesting scientists during that era. Along with interspecies communication, he heavily researched psychedelic drug experiences and combining them with sensory deprivation tanks. He became heavily addicted to ketamine (reports say that he would come to work every day with a spray bottle full of ketamine, and noisily snort it throughout the day), and eventually became convinced of the existence of a cosmic organization called the Earth Coincidence Control Office (E.C.C.O.), which directed the actions of individuals on Earth. His story is also the inspiration for the video game Ecco the Dolphin.
Side-note, this project was one of the inspirations behind the cult-classic Ecco the Dolphin game for the Sega Genesis
This video explains it very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xUvhUK8Dv8
Here's the Radiolab podcast about it (2015)
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/home-where-your-dolphin-is...
The Dollop podcast did a hilarious episode on this.
There's a really good documentary about this: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3822614/
The BBC showed it a few years ago, it's fascinating: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b046w2n8
Thevet, thank you for the quality of your submissions. I really enjoy reading about these little-known pieces of history.
This story pops up from time to time. There's an old Rooster Teeth video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prmx0lYBTko
Context for some of what's in 'the day of the dolphin' by Robert Merle which I now understand is fictionalized from the Lilly story.
Szilards 'the voice of the dolphins' story is much more a political work post bomb physiscs career.
SNL did a pretty funny skit semi-based on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zq5kWvp528
Poor Peter
dolphin disagrees
This is such an out there article, I'm not surprised at the lack of comments. I suspect very few want to comment and possibly be associated with zoophila. It did remind me of a site I stumbled upon in the 90's possibly later describing in a fairly clinical manner how to have sex with a dolphin. It is not graphic at all, but definately NSFW. Not Safe For Work! https://web.archive.org/web/20040131140419/http://www.dolphi... I'm not attracted to dolphins, but my purient interests found the site interesting and amusing.