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Re:How do dolphins choose their name? by ehhhhhhhhh on Friday July 08, 2022 @08:32PM (#32029998)
Dolphins are interesting. Researchers tried to get someone living with one in a waist high pool all day to teach it language humans could understand. Funding started running out, so the researcher started giving it handjobs and LSD. No luck. Source:

https://boingboing.net/2013/06/18/dolphins-on-acid-and-other...

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Re:How do dolphins choose their name? by dTal on Friday July 08, 2022 @09:13PM (#32030251)
You misrepresent the scenario to the point of fabrication; while each event you describe did individually (sort of) happen, the narrative is all scrambled. And your "source" is just a link to another article, which 404s.

Wikipedia link, for the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Howe_Lovatt

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Re:How do dolphins choose their name? by hackernewds on Saturday July 09, 2022 @04:06AM (#32032975)
Fascinating information to supplement. However the Wikipedia doesn't produce any citations either, so tough to accept human edits as truth. additionally, the Wikipedia article actually doesn't contradict what ehhhhhh commented.
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Re:How do dolphins choose their name? by pawsforthought on Saturday July 09, 2022 @04:38AM (#32033139)
This article from The Atlantic gives some more context to the delphinophilia:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/ho...

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Re:How do dolphins choose their name? by pictiPig on Saturday July 09, 2022 @06:35AM (#32033698)
Radiolab had an episode interviewing Margaret Howe, which was very informative if my memory serves.

https://radiolab.org/episodes/hello-podmash

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Re:How do dolphins choose their name? by feet on Sunday July 10, 2022 @11:41AM (#32045723)
The article lists four citations, not sure why you claim there are none?
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Re:How do dolphins choose their name? by pvaldes on Saturday July 09, 2022 @05:36AM (#32033404)
I would not discard that funding started running out after seen how they were spending the money on turning the dolphins into party animals.
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