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Frank Drake and Carl Sagan - The Story of the Dolphin House

A woman named Margaret Lovett lived full time with a dolphin named, I believe his name was Peter. The logic here was at first they were just trying to teach dolphins how to speak English like in an aquarium. But when you're teaching a babyHow to speak English, you don't stop talking to it after five o'clock. So they had Margaret live with this dolphin full time and speak to him all the time as if he was a human companion. And supposedly she did eventually get the dolphin to say hello Margaret, which is a huge accomplishment.

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