Margaret Howe Lovatt | |
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| Born | Margaret C. Howe 1942 (age 81–82) |
| Occupation | naturalist |
| Known for | Living with and attempting to teach Peter (a bottlenose dolphin) to speak in the 1960s, as part of a John C. Lilly project |
| Children | 4 |
Margaret Howe Lovatt (born Margaret C. Howe, in 1942) is an American former volunteer naturalist from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. In the 1960s, 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.