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Peter
Peter was a young male bottlenose dolphin involved in John C. Lilly's dolphin communication research in the United States Virgin Islands during the 1960s. Researcher Margaret Howe Lovatt lived and worked closely with him in a partially flooded experimental space, repeatedly encouraging him to imitate simple human speech sounds. The project examined whether a dolphin could reproduce spoken patterns...
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Elvar
Elvar was a bottlenose dolphin captured in Iceland in 1967 and kept at the Hafnarfjörður Aquarium. He remained there until his death in 2014, making him an example of a dolphin that spent decades in human care. Accounts of Elvar focus on the length of his captivity, which has made him relevant to discussions of dolphin longevity and the history of marine-animal display.
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