In order to study dolphins, humans have conducted various experiments, including one secret experiment that was not exposed until more than 50 years later.

In 1963, funded by NASA, an experiment was conducted on a male bottlenose dolphin named Peter in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The purpose of the experiment was to study whether dolphins could learn human language and successfully communicate with humans.

The experimental team arranged a room filled with water and allowed a female researcher named Margaret to live with Peter. They were not separated 24 hours a day, eating, sleeping, studying, and entertaining together.

In this way, Margaret can teach Peter to speak English like a mother teaches her child, and let him understand and understand human language.

Although dolphins do not have vocal cords, they can use the blowholes on their heads to make sounds.

Peter the dolphin showed amazing learning ability. In less than two weeks, he learned to say numbers like "one, two, three" and simple greetings like "hi, hello", and eventually learned more than 700 English words.

word.

What is incredible is that Peter is not simply "parroting", because when Margaret says "work, work, work" to it, meaning to ask it to study, it can really understand and answer "play"

,play,play”, telling Margaret that it doesn’t want to study, it wants to play.

Even when Peter wants to eat fish, he will say "fish in bucket" to Margaret, which means that he wants to eat the fish in the bucket.

However, as the experiment progressed, something unexpected happened.

Peter is becoming less and less willing to study and just wants to be close to Margaret. He uses various methods to attract Margaret's attention every day.

Peter would become irritable when Margaret left him to go to the toilet.

When Margaret was talking to someone on the phone, Peter would yell into the phone.

Obviously, it is jealous.

Peter had fallen in love with Margaret, which made the research team think that the experiment was developing in a direction beyond their control, so the experiment was terminated. They forcibly separated Peter and Margaret, although Margaret was unwilling to leave.

peter, but there was nothing she could do about it.

When Peter discovered that Margaret never appeared again, he became extremely angry. He kept swimming around in the pool, calling Margaret's name, and refused to eat or drink.

One day a few weeks later, Peter hid under the pool and refused to come to the surface to breathe. He suffocated himself to death.

The breathing method of dolphins is completely different from that of other animals. It is absolutely impossible for humans to commit suicide by holding their breath, because after suffocation and coma, the body will instinctively let go of breathing.

But dolphin breathing requires control by the brain rather than autonomic nerves, so each breath requires active muscle control.

This was a scientific view in the past. People used this to explain the reason why dolphins hold their breath and commit suicide, and it has been widely circulated.

But Richard told Bi Fang that this was inaccurate.

Someone once used complex and complete anesthesia experiments to prove that dolphin breathing can be either "automatic" or actively controlled.

They can suffocate and commit suicide by closing their spiracles.

So everything is proven.

This dolphin died for its love.

What is suicide?

This is a complex issue. Modern science is so inconclusive, but it still does not fully understand why humans commit suicide, and the risk factors for human suicide are still not determined.

The National Psychiatric Association lists suicidal behavior as a "disorder requiring further consideration."

Even what constitutes human suicide is controversial—as much a matter of biology and psychology as it is of philosophy and semantics.

Others have pointed out that even among humans, pre-pubescent children or children with developmental disabilities, suicidal behavior is rare.

No human child can understand the concept of suicide, and the most intelligent non-human animals are unlikely to have an intelligence level that exceeds that of human teenagers. It seems even more impossible to expect them to understand their own death and have the ability to perform suicidal behavior.

In Bi Fang's view, the so-called suicide requires that the perpetrator must have self-awareness, understand the true meaning of death, and have the ability to perform a series of actions that he knows will lead to his own death.

Everything proves that dolphins have extremely high self-awareness.

Because this experiment involved ethical and moral issues, the data and files were sealed at the time and have not been made public.

It was not until 2014 that this experiment was finally declassified.

Bi Fang slowly spit out a bubble. He looked at the dolphins beside him and slowly clenched his fists, mobilizing all the muscles in his body.

He punched the dolphin hard on the head.

You helped me, but I'm sorry, I want to hurt you.
Chapter completed!