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Margaret Howe Lovatt
American animal behavior scientist
Margaret Howe Lovatt | |
|---|---|
| Born | Margaret C. Howe (age&#;82&#;83) |
| Occupation | naturalist |
| Known&#;for | Living with and attempting to teach Peter (a bottlenose dolphin) to speak in the s, as part of a John C.
Lilly project |
| Children | 4 |
Margaret Howe Lovatt (born Margaret C. Howe, in ) is an American former volunteer naturalist from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. In the 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 who communicated with humans. This inspired her to research teaching animals to speak human language.
Dolphinarium
When she was in her early 20s, Lovatt lived on the Caribbean island of St.
Thomas, where there was a laboratory to research dolphins. The director of the laboratory, Gregory Bateson, allowed her to obs