<p>Can animals fall in love with humans? They do, but in the case of a female animal researcher the chemistry between her and a male dolphin was well beyond just love.<br /><br /></p>.<p>In a new BBC documentary titled "The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins", Margaret Howe Lovatt has explained what happened when she tried to teach a bottlenose dolphin named Peter how to speak English during a NASA funded experiment in 1965.<br /><br />Lovatt, then 23, was stationed on the US Virgin Islands with a male dolphin where the two of them would eat, bathe and sleep together.<br /><br />Peter apparently fell in love with her.<br /><br />Lovatt realised the sea mammal was becoming sexually aroused by her, a report in NY Daily News said.<br /><br />"Peter liked to be with me. He would rub himself on my knee, my foot or my hand and I allowed that," she was quoted as saying.<br /><br />"It would just become part of what was going on, like an itch, just get rid of that scratch and we would be done and move on," Lovatt added.<br /><br />The two did not have sexual intercourse, though Howe admitted the relationship was "sensual" for her.<br /><br />The BBC documentary is slated for premiere on BBC4 June 17.</p>
<p>Can animals fall in love with humans? They do, but in the case of a female animal researcher the chemistry between her and a male dolphin was well beyond just love.<br /><br /></p>.<p>In a new BBC documentary titled "The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins", Margaret Howe Lovatt has explained what happened when she tried to teach a bottlenose dolphin named Peter how to speak English during a NASA funded experiment in 1965.<br /><br />Lovatt, then 23, was stationed on the US Virgin Islands with a male dolphin where the two of them would eat, bathe and sleep together.<br /><br />Peter apparently fell in love with her.<br /><br />Lovatt realised the sea mammal was becoming sexually aroused by her, a report in NY Daily News said.<br /><br />"Peter liked to be with me. He would rub himself on my knee, my foot or my hand and I allowed that," she was quoted as saying.<br /><br />"It would just become part of what was going on, like an itch, just get rid of that scratch and we would be done and move on," Lovatt added.<br /><br />The two did not have sexual intercourse, though Howe admitted the relationship was "sensual" for her.<br /><br />The BBC documentary is slated for premiere on BBC4 June 17.</p>