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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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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

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.

This article from The Atlantic gives some more context to the delphinophilia:

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

Radiolab had an episode interviewing Margaret Howe, which was very informative if my memory serves.

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

The article lists four citations, not sure why you claim there are none?

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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