Brenner photographed Dolly
Edited by Wu Tong
Photo and text l Wutong History Museum
A controversial event happened in the United States: a man and a dolphin "got together" despite worldly prejudices, and they had a wonderful time together.
In the end, they ended up with a result of never seeing each other, what did they go through?
1. A most special love story
"Animal Lovers" Buenalen and Dolly
Before you learn about their experiences, I don't know if you have heard a word called "animal lovers."
There is such a group of people, they think that the emotions between people and animals are connected, and even feel that as long as the feelings are in place, they can also fall in love with each other, this kind of person is called "animal lovers".
Today we are going to talk about the story of people like them:
Malcolm. Bunalen
The protagonist's name is Malcolm. Bunaren, he is the kind of person who is "animal lover".
He had a very memorable experience, so much so that when he looks back on it, he still can't forget it.
What exactly did he go through? Why did it make him so memorable?
"Animal Lovers" Buenalen and Dolly
It turned out that he had a "love" with a female dolphin named Dolly,
How did they meet? When I was in college in Bunalen. At that time, Bunallen was tasked with taking pictures of the dolphins, and that was the first time Dolly had seen Bunaran.
At that time, Dolly was not familiar with Bunaren, so she was very wary of him. Later, after Bunalen's many active interactions with it, Dolly's vigilance slowly came down.
Dolly was wary of Bunaren
Later, when Bunalen recalled the first time he met Dolly, he said:
"I was so attracted that I had never been so close to a dolphin. I jumped into the water, trying to get closer to her. ”
After Dolly let her guard down, Bunaran began to try to interact with it:
Brenner stroked Dolly
I started stroking her forehead and she looked enjoyable. Then I stroked her back and tail all the way. ”
Bunaran did not expect Dolly to like herself so much at first, and just as Bunallen was stroking Dolly's back, a surprising scene suddenly occurred:
Dolly, who was still defensive, suddenly allowed Bunarun to approach and touch, and even turned her stomach towards Bunarun.
Dolly's belly was facing Bunaren
Later, Dolly's actions even made Bunalen feel shy, what did Dolly do?
At this time Dolly swam a little farther forward, put a part of herself under Bunaren's men and then stopped moving.
Bunaren was very embarrassed at the time, and the scene was very embarrassing. You know, Dolly is a dolphin trained to perform,
Dolly and Bunallen
In its consciousness, it would only please the man who gave it food, but Bunalen had never given it food, and it was so close to him.
He even made courtship moves again and again. It was then that Bunalen realized Dolly's special feelings for him.
Bunalen recalled: "She would rub my body with a certain part. If I tried to push her away, she would still be mad at me.
Bunalen interacts with Dolly
She pressed the weight of her entire body against me and pushed me to the bottom of the pool at a depth of 3.6 meters. ”
Later, Dolly seems to realize that she has not done enough, so she tries to love in other ways:
As soon as she saw Bunalen, Dolly would open her mouth and rub her teeth on his feet or hands to express her love.
Bunalen and Dolly
When Dolly repeatedly estrus bunaren, he also suddenly realizes that his feelings for Dolly are different.
Why did Bunalen fall in love with a dolphin?
This has a lot to do with his childhood experience, he was once hurt by pediatricians, which left a deep mark on his childhood,
Young Bunaro
Slowly he discovered that his sexuality was different from others, and Bunallen said that he first found himself having a physiological response to animals while watching the Disney movie "LongHair Dog".
It wasn't long before the young Bunallen didn't hold back and started his "first experience": they had a pet poodle at home, and the dog was in heat.
Bunalen with pet poodle
Bunalen had something happened to him, and he thought the dog wouldn't mind. After the end, the dog seems to be fine,
However, his psychology was greatly affected, and he felt that he was completely different from normal people, and even spurned himself a little.
Then he suppressed his thoughts until he met Dolly, and his thoughts were like a flood of floods and became uncontrollable.
Bunaro
At first, he realized his special feelings for Dolly, but he never passed this level in his heart, and he felt that he should not do it.
Then something happened that sped up the progress of their relationship: Dolly's zoo was about to close, and it was leaving for a new settlement.
This meant that Bunallen would never see Dolly again, so he decided to see Dolly for the last time. It was this last side that made him determined to do something bold.
Bunalen and Dolly "Play"
What did Bunalen do? He decided to follow his heart and indulge once, satisfying himself and satisfying Dolly once.
After seeing Dolly, he jumped directly into the water and played with her for a long time, and finally they began to get into the main topic, I will not describe the specifics, everyone can imagine it on their own.
When the matter was over, they lay together by the fence by the pool and snuggled up to each other, enjoying the beauty of the moment together, and Bunalen's whole body and mind were satisfied.
Bunalen and Dolly
Dolly was then sent to other aquariums, separated from Bunaren, who never spoke of anything between them.
Can they see each other again? Will there be any subsequent development of this special emotion?
One day years later, Bunalen suddenly had a nightmare in which he saw a dead dolphin trapped in a basement.
Dolphin carcasses
When Bunalen woke up, he remembered the dream and secretly had a bad premonition in his heart. He quickly asked someone about Dolly's current situation.
After some questioning, he gets bad news: Dolly is out of this world.
The trainer told Bunalen that Dolly had not eaten or drunk since she arrived, and that they had tried all kinds of things to no avail. Until one morning, they found her body at the bottom of the pool.
Bunalen collapsed
Bunaren's whole body collapsed when he heard the news, and it took him a full five years to come out.
Later, recalling the most "beautiful" moment with Dolly, Bunalen said:
"Whether emotionally, psychologically, physically and mentally, this is true, we go from two separate individuals to one."
Write novels in memory of Dolly
Later, he also wrote the autobiographical novel "Goddess of Water", which tells the story of him and Dolly. But when the book was released, it caused a lot of controversy:
Bunalen was thought to be bestial, but in his opinion, he was an animal lover. This is very different from the bestiality:
Bestiality is usually about venting sexual desires through animals and then ignoring them, but animal lovers are different: they have deep feelings for their animal companions.
Dolly
Like Bunalen's feelings for Dolly, he would never forget Dolly no matter how long it took.
In fact, they are not the first pair of dolphin lovers, long before them, there have been similar incidents in the Caribbean.
2. Deep emotions generated during experiments
Why do some people say that the dolphin experiment in 1960 was 'the worst experiment in the world'? Let's first look at the specific process of this experiment, maybe after reading it, you will be able to draw conclusions.
dolphin
Scientist John Leay proposed an experiment that sounded outrageous: teaching dolphins to speak.
Surprisingly, they also got support from NASA, which built the White Institute, called dolphin house.
Soon they were locked in to the subject: a male bottlenose dolphin, whom they named Pete. Female college student Margaret was specifically responsible for teaching it to speak.
Margaret and Pete
When he first taught Pete, Pete was still cooperative, and slowly learned some simple words, but later Margaret found that Pete became very impatient.
If a word is repeated 2.3 times, it becomes irritable and reluctant to communicate with Margaret.
At this time, they thought of a good way: they specially arranged a special room for Margaret and the male dolphin Pete, so that they could live together and get along more to cultivate feelings.
Margaret and male dolphin Pete
So what happens during the time they live together?
At first, Pete didn't get used to sleeping with Margaret. At night, Pete would sleep in a knee-deep pool, while Margaret slept on a foam mat.
They are far apart, and after a long time together, they sleep together and play together, and have gradually developed enough tacit understanding.
Peter
Margaret also began to prepare to teach Pete to speak, and every morning at eight o'clock, Margaret's small class began.
To help Pete learn pronunciation better, she deliberately painted her face white and her lips black.
This will help Pitt see the shape of his lips better, and it will also better allow Pete to accept new knowledge.
Later, with the passage of time, the two developed a deep tacit understanding. As soon as Margaret spoke to Pete, Pete would immediately reach out of the water and look at Margaret waiting to talk to him.
Margaret interacts with Pete
Slowly, Pete learned some English words, such as "hi" and "apple." Later, whenever Margaret said anything, Pete would respond to her immediately.
Margaret would then give Pete encouragement and feed him some food. When he heard Margaret praise her progress, Pete was also very happy and would take the initiative to rub her.
Margaret also taught Pete more and more carefully, and she used Pete's curiosity to use a variety of different toys in the course to teach Pete to speak different words, which could keep his interest in the course well.
Peter
I thought everything would go this way, but in the fourth week, there was a serious obstacle. What the hell is going on?
In the process of getting along, Margaret found that Pete began to "listen to lectures" well, and also showed signs of liking herself, and she would flirt with herself from time to time.
For example, Pete will always find ways to get close to Margaret, rubbing her body on Margaret's legs, knees, hands everywhere.
Pete and Margaret
It also makes other courtship-like moves, and Pete has almost caused minor injuries to her leg due to friction.
At the same time, Pete will take the initiative to look at herself in the mirror every day, and it also shows a strong possessiveness towards Margaret.
When Margaret is on the phone, Pete keeps making a sound next to her, sounding like she's been left out in the cold, telling her "loved ones" about her grievances.
Pete with two female dolphins
At this point, the research team realized that Pete now had some kind of need, and they decided to let it get along with the two female dolphins first.
But the vet's opinion is that Pete has fallen in love with Margaret. Later, after living with the female dolphin for a while, Pete became much milder.
Margaret's side is used to getting along with one person and one dolphin, and when Pete is away, she misses it too.
Two people interact
What will happen to them later? Let's move on!
After helping Pitt solve his physiological needs, they continue the teaching plan, but at this time there are some doubts from the outside world.
Some scientists believe that their experiment is meaningless, and Pete is just copying and pasting Margaret's voice.
Old Margaret recalls
Then an even bigger crisis came, and the media harbored great malice toward his relationship with Pete.
The media portrayed the relationship between the two as messy and unsightly, which made Margaret very sad.
Coupled with the fact that they have not produced obvious results, and the institution that funded their experiments has decided to divest, will they survive this crisis?
The place where it was transferred
This was a difficult task, and eventually they announced that the experiment had failed, the Dolphin House was gone, and Pete was transported back to another laboratory.
The news came that Pete had been depressed all day because he couldn't see Margaret. Eventually passed away.
Regarding the cause of Pete's death, many people speculate that he committed suicide because he left Margaret's lost love, is this really the case?
Pete sank to the bottom
3. It is still doubtful why Pete died
The night before Margaret and Pete parted, she recalled the bits and pieces of her time with Pete, and her heart was full of emotions and full of reluctance for this place.
Margaret witnessed the plane carrying Pete slowly leave, which meant that the special relationship between them was officially over.
Later, Margaret missed Pete and would inquire about Pete from time to time, and she knew from other people that Pete was now in very good health and had a new owner taking care of him.
Peter
Is this really the case? This is not the case.
In fact, Pete was transferred to a private building, and the environment of this new place was very poor, and there was no way to compare with the previous one.
There is neither sun nor pool, the space is so small, and the room is filled with the stench of all kinds of excrement, which we normal people can't stand, let alone Pete.
Pete's real-life environment
When Pete first came here, his physical condition was ok, but after a long period of being affected by the bad environment, he slowly couldn't stand it.
A few weeks later, the news of Pete's death came, and after seeing the environment where Pete lived, some people thought that Pete chose to commit suicide because of this bad environment
Others disagree with this view, believing that Pete died of separation from Margaret. But in fact, there will be more people who agree with the former's point of view.
In addition, in response to the reporter's malicious speculation about Margaret, I would like to tell you about Margaret's situation.
She said that when they were conducting the experiment, she was not alone, in addition to her, other friends were also on the scene.
And when Pete shows her physical desire, there are also friends in the lab who solve it with her, and they and Pete are mutually respectful.
A crowd of people surrounded Pete
In the face of the malicious speculation of reporters, they are helpless, and finally forced to compromise due to reality.
So I hope that in the future, when we face things, we will not only look at the surface, but we will see the essence of things from it.
4. All stories will come to an end
Margaret's "love tragedy" with Pete ends like this, and later, when Margaret recalls Pete, she says that it was his happiest time, and she will always keep Pete in her heart.
I think not only Marigot, but also the other members of dolphin house will not forget Pitt, after all, they have been together for a long time.
The feelings between them have long since transcended love and are more like family feelings. Finally, I wish Pete and Dolly the best of luck in heaven, with their beloved master.