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Maybe the communication experiment could have gotten somewhere if they'd paid attention to basic biology and realized dolphins can't form the same sounds as us. They just needed to try teaching it English via Morse code (like how a gorilla was taught sign language). It probably wouldn't have been able to learn much more than a few simple words, but it would have been easier than just talking to it and expecting it to magically turn into a parrot.

9:40 "Unlike us humans, dolphin's don't have vocal cords. They don't even speak with their mouths. Above water they make sound in a similar way to most politicians; by forcing air out of their blowholes" Damn, that got me good 🤣

Peters end is really heartbreaking. How could they put him in such a desolate environment after being is an environment that fostered bonding and communication with his caretakers. It was as if he was being punished. That was suicide. He gave up on life. Humans are horrible.

What's bad is, just because you don't hear about it doesn't mean these kinds of experiments don't still happen

Man, Peter's tragic end is a real tear jerker. Dude didn't have thumbs, and without Margaret's "helping hand," he simply lost the will to go on. RIP Peter!

That was definitely a suicide by Peter. Losing Margaret was no doubt enough of a heartbreak for him, but to then be put into that tiny tank and no sunlight? Had he and the other two been housed in a decent pool, where he could at least swim around, he might have survived missing her, but the loss and then confinement was too much for him. That was inhumane to treat them that way.

This wouldn’t be the first recording dolphin suicide. The world first dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry, witnessed Kathy’s suicide. Kathy was the primary dolphin used for the famous Flipper tv-series. This event caused Ric to dedicate the rest of his life to fighting against dolphin captivity and sea aquariums.

You would think if they wanted to talk to animals they would start with animals that are capable of speaking. Like parrots crows and ravens. I once knew a parrot named Spanky that could speak a 150 words he even gave the dog commands and the dog obeyed. It was clearly far more than just a trick the bird knew exactly what it was doing. His only hang up was he confused the word treat with cookie, Spanky was one smart bird he even drank beer. Larry the guy that owned the bird. His wife divorced him and left him with nothing but his motorcycle and the bird. Then I heard that Larry won the lottery maybe not millions but more than enough to retire moved to Florida. Those parrots can live for 50 or 60 years. I would like to think that somewhere in Florida Spanky and Larry are sitting on the beach somewhere having cookies and beers to this day.

R.I.P. Peter and the other dolphins. They deserved better in life. So long, and thanks for all the fish, fellow hitchhiker.

Poor Peter! Dolphins really are smart, they communicate with each other, teach each other. They form bonds. That poor creature had no idea why his entire world suddenly changed. and I feel sure grieved that previous life. Even a dog mourns it's master.

The tragic death of Peter the dolphin at the hands of those idiots who believe a dolphin can communicate was heartbreaking to see and hear about. Bubbles, Michael Jackson's pet chimpanzee, sprang to mind when watching the video. It would be nice if scientists just left animals alone.

Those dolphins in Dr. Lilly's research lab pools suffered so horrifically from depression that some of them died from loneliness, lack of body movement and grief.

So instead of realising dolphins can verbally communicate instructions and going ahead and learning their language, we ended up giving the dolphin hand jobs and LSD. Wow.

the experiement could have worked if they would have tried using non vocal comunication or if they would have given the dolphine a machine that speaks the words the dolphine wants to use by pressing buttons with his nose

I feel so bad for the dolphins they didn’t deserve that!Its truly disgusting that they had been kept there for years in a gross tank Rip🕊️🐬

Just when I thought the topics of these videos couldnt get any more insane..

Fun Fact: shortly after this dolphin research started, fellow Professor Louis Leakey sent 3 college students (the TriMates) into the jungles. Birutè Galdikas to study Orangutans, Jane Goodall to study Chimpanzees, and Diane Fosse to study Gorillas.

First I wanted to make a joke about how quickly this video got demonetized. Then I wanted to say how tragically this ended - RIP Peter. But then you brought up Ecco the Dolphin and now all I want to say is that game was *AWESOME.*

Arran is not just the best story teller on UKposts, he's the best storyteller I've ever heard.

Well well well. Someone at NASA really went and said "for research porpoises!"

the fact you quoted Hitchhikers' guide is AWESOME. Here is a like and comment to help your channel grow and get you the recognition you deserve.

Awesome video! The story, jokes, narration, illustrations...all of it. Well done!

what an angel she was, tugging off peter to quench his frustration 💧💧💧

Have to hand it to Thoughty2, the man knows how to come up with titles that make people want to know more! Lol

Yes peter knew his actions would kill him. He would've known when he was running out of air. He would've known he was fighting against the urge to just go up and breath

My brother's first girlfriend had some big dogs. A mutt and a golden retriever they (her & her mother) couldn't keep them anymore so my family took them. The mutt was male, Razoo the Razzertater. The retriever was female, Buttercup. Amazing dogs. The best dogs for a teenage boy to have around. We had many adventures together. Buttercup got sick. She had to be ...... put down. Razzoo simply shut down. He wouldn't eat or drink. He wouldn't move to go to the bathroom, he just laid in his filth. He stopped responding to everyone. He didn't even want to go for truck rides. There was nothing medically wrong with him. He died 4 days later after Buttercup. He died of a broken heart. Animals can love just like we can.

Imagine applying for a job and on your resume it reads “Dolphin wanker”

I'd read almost all of Lilly's books, used to go for floats fairly regularly and met him once back in the 1970s. The human/dolphin communication idea mainly suffered from having been attempted too early. It would probably have a better chance now.

Peter's death hit me right in the feels. I truly believe it was a suicide.

My heart breaks for Peter and his friends….😢 humans can be just awful

This is fascinating! I have never heard of this until now.

5:03 Talking parrots:Am I a joke to you?..

Margret's dedication to this project and her love of dolphins and the fact that she was not afraid to get her hands a little dirty sure came in handy in more ways than one.

The only person I want telling me about Nasa and Dolphin Porn is Thoughty2

Thoughty2 never disappoints with his jokes here and there.

Oh my, that final line is classic- bravo!

i saw the notification and immediately said "WHAT" out loud

Man, if we could communicate with politicians, then we’d be able to talk to aliens! They can’t seem to understand us, and we can’t understand what the heck they’re doing either.

That Ecco connection just blew my mind! I loved that game. I remember it took a bizarre turn in the end I that was a bit strange.

I've read "Man and Dolphin" as well as the sequel, "The Mind of the Dolphin" and ended up with mixed emotions about both. Lilly was a medical doctor from the 50's and most of his writing talks about how courageous it is to even consider, much less declare, that dolphins might be intelligent. The man had an ego and spends a lot of time writing about himself and having such bold ideas. The actual info about dolphins could be condensed into a magazine article. But you have to consider the time, way before the Internet, so little was known, much less spread. In the 50's, people could shoot dolphins for sport. They were thought-of as fish. I really credit the aquariums for enlightening the masses. Even the show, "Flipper" was a big help. Before that, people just didn't know. With guys like Timothy Leary making headlines, it was reasonable to think that LSD might be a technological break-through. I won't fault Lilly there. But I will say that he wasn't much of scientist. He didn't really study the dolphins deeply and observe them for what they were, or are. I feel it was like a window of opportunity lost, and I would love to see someone repeat the experiment with a more modern realistic view. Lilly was eventually done-in by ketamine. He was totally lost on the drug. And I have mixed emotions about that too. Ketamine has recently been shown to be helpful in the treatment of depression. But we're talking about maybe once or twice a year. More often and it destroys the brain. That seems to be what happened to Lilly. Thanks to Thoughty2. This was a good exposition, and I never knew that Margaret got the lab and what, unfortunately, happened to Peter. By looking at the past, we can plot the future. And hopefully improve.

Truly weird and sad especially for the dolphins to be so callously abandoned

The AI art that was used for this thumbnail is terrifying

I saw this story in another, hour-long documentary on UKposts (can't remember where or how it showed up in my feed now, but there you go.) It's a really sad and messed-up experiment, due in large part to huge naivety on the part of the researchers involved. Margaret crossed the line when she started interacting in a more intimate way with Peter - not just for the obvious reasons, but because she must've known she was creating a bond that would devastate Peter once it (inevitably) had to be broken. And as for using LSD...!

Poor Peter. People are so cruel to lab animals.

watching the title of this video change 3 times over the last hour has been quite a journey

Thank you for sharing this with me, especially the ECCO thing! I'm making a game (probably) called Entropia Chaos Control, and it would be interesting to tie the acronyms together in a way

Loved Ecco! My wife and I bring it up every once in a while randomly. Great game!

I was genuinely hoping the male dolphin was named "Randy." But you know what, Peter is a good 2nd option.

I'd heard this story before but you had additional information that I hadn't heard before. Very interesting, but so sad that the dolphins ended up so badly. Loved the quote at the end - the perfect way to end the video!

"So long and thanks for all the fish." You got my sub! I grinned for a while at that.

Oh, i remember this from Drunk History. Loved how you put in more details

When dolphins getting more action then you, really makes you want to start rethinking your priorities 😅

This video was so interesting, I haven’t watched your videos in over 3 years, wow it’s been so long😮

12:14 - losing it at the rendering of Carl Sagan in the Human-Dolphin flat-share with his trouser legs rolled up!

Love the channel & videos. Sorry long comment & getting into some personal stuff. I subscribed to the channel 5 years ago & quit watching UKposts some time after that & in between that time I was hit by a car in 2018 & in the hospital for a few weeks, it broke vertebra in my neck, cracked my right shoulder blade almost in half, cracked my skull, de-gloved my scalp, broke my left leg & shattered my ankle. So I had to move back in with my parents can't work or get out much & I get lonely & bored, after my parents paid me back for fixing the plumbing, I bought an XBOX & finally figured out how to sign in to UKposts & that's all I watch now, because we just have Direct TV & there's never anything on, but talking to my therapist, my medication, weed & you're videos help with my loneliness & boredom & I wanted to say thank you for that

I did not expect this video to have a tragic side to it. Poor Peter.

Well done, great broadcasting :) honestly not sure about the moustache nowadays but if your results have proven otherwise then hats off to you 😊

when i heard the dolphin-legs thing, i was scared it was the same for cats because my cats ALWAYS rub against me and my families legs, turns out they rub it to show they are happy to see you and not because of umm other stuff.

A perfect example of why we should leave the natural world….., well, natural. Rest in peace, Peter. 💔

it is MINDBLOWING that a dolphin unalived himself over the love from a human being; this changes SO much i think

I could totally picture Peter's state of mind. I remember my first loves and when they ended some times it felt like my heart was ripped out. Imagine that plus not being able to understand why she left...

Imagine you're one of the grandkids of Margret Howe Lovett and you find out your mom gave handys to a dolphin from a Thoughty 2 video💀

I played the Ecco game when I was a kid. It was so fun! Crazy to think it was inspired by such a strange and ultimately tragic series of events.

Plot twist: Peter was speaking back with echolocation the whole time and was wondering what's wrong with those dumbos

We have 3 cats. One of them, Yankee, talks to me all the time and we have come to understand each other with certain meows, and certain words. They may not be as complex by Dr. Lilly's standards, but some of them are certainly very smart.

Crazy and hilarious, incredible vid!

That's kinda messed up Margaret never went to visit Peter after he was relocated...how can one spend so much time with such an intelligent animal and just...move on overnight? Especially after doing what she did. Dolphins are smart. Poor Peter would have been so lost and confused :(

The reveal of it being the inspiration for Ecco the dolphin absolutely blew my mind

So long, and thanks for the fish. Looks like Thoughty2 has more quotes from the Hitchhiker's Guide :)

I’m so happy for the last comment, I’d thought about that about halfway through. Never knew that about Ecco.. played it quite a bit growing up.

I feel like you're the only channel I like watching EVERY video from. Love your stuff!!! Don't ever stop

@thoughty2 love your videos. They are always well laid out and they flow perfectly. You do a great job of truly telling a story and it makes taking in the information more enjoyable. I do have one serious question for you. Do you ever age? I swear over the years you just dont age man. :D keep up the good work i look forward to your future productions.

I remember when you started dude you were good then and you just became so much better even now you've definitely polished your stuff. It's nice

Poor Peter. To end up in a place like that is unconscionable and obviously traumatic. You’d think that with his importance within this study, they would have at least attempted to ensure proper care after the experiment ended. Just from this show, you’d think the bond bn Margret and Peter was so strong that she would’ve advocated for him. Poor dolphin commits suicide while she made a family in her small dolphin house built for him. Then seemingly forgets about him. Beyond sad.

The first inter-species communication just happened. The dolphin message was translated and said, 'The extended warranty on your vehicle is about to expire'.

Arran, you are on fire to start 2023. I thought I knew about Lilly before. Your videos have been great so far this year. Keep up the good work.

9:08 “To put it lightly, it was… A BIG ASK!” is hands down the funniest scene on this channel. I died for a bit.

NASA: we will have an experiment trying to teach dolphins english Meanwhile Margaret Howe Lovatt: we do a little trolling

It all started when someone realized a dolphin could deliver pizza.

I really enjoyed your narration and story-telling skills. This was fun to watch and I watched until the end. Great job and great illustrations!

I think the fact that Peter fell in love with Margaret and viceversa was proof that the experiment was a success, and communication between species is indeed possible…

I believe the show Fringe is based on Lily and his “discovery” of ECCO. Great show, and thankfully no Dolphin shenanigans are featured.

I played ECCO when I was younger, in the 90's and I absolutely LOVED it! so cool to know the story behind it.

Nice ending with the reference to your namesake......But it sounds like Peter was giving thanks for more than just fish......But sadly, in the end..... his life just didn't have porpoise anymore😂😂

@thoughty2 the entire time I was watching this I was thinking he has to mention, "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" Thank You! Epic. Douglas Adams and for that matter Level 42 Mark King, Mike Lindup, The Goulds should be proud. Some from the other side. YOU ROCK!

I wonder if this interest in the possibility of communication with dolphins had anything to do with that one The Zack Files children's book. Given that most of the books were about classic monsters/stories like werewolves and vampires and Frankenstein, I remember the dolphin book sticking out to younger me as seeming more random.

love the Douglas Addams quote at the end. from the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. great episode keep up the great work.

Q: Why was the dolphin depressed? A: He didn't have a porpoise.

Actually...this kind of experimentation is the sort of thing that shouldn't be played with and left alone. It is not necessary, especially when we find so hard to communicate INTELLIGENTLY with each other.

there are people like me that are out here you don't even know, truly appreciating who you are and what you do. Thank you for being you.

I know it's messed up, but that doesn't make it any less sad the way that it turned out. I remember this story

Not as controversial, but in 2017 UC Berkeley reported on a 2 year, million dollar research project about why shoelaces come untied and what the best way to tie them is 👍

Great closing comment! That and the similarity with politicians, made me laugh.

"So long, and thanks for all the fish!" From the very beginning of this video, I wondered if there was any connection between this and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Meaning, I wonder if Douglas Adams was inspired by any of this research to communicate with dolphins.

Dr ends up tripping his way thru Nasa's budget There's poetry in that

I had actually heard about this "experiment" before. Still enjoyable to hear about it again even if the subject is a bit insane

That opening got me 😂

How did I watch this to the end. Lol 😂 Peter’s Peter was 😆 happy until the funding ended. 😂

I know the whole thing is crazy but something else I find crazy is the fact you want someone to literally teach a dolphin to talk and you expect quick results.. Like, what? Lmao..