The Mind of the Dolphin: A Nonhuman Intelligence

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Interior is unmarked, but slightly toned. Small former seller label to the inside front cover. Light shelf-wear, but a nice copy overall. Lilly found inspiration at an early age in the subjective idealism of George Berkeley, as well as the pharmacological control methods explored in Brave New World, which led to his study of biology at Dartmouth, where he participated as a subject in a glycocyamine study requiring a protein-free diet eventually leading to extreme fatigue and delirium. In the 1950s, he began research into dolphin communication at his NASA-funded dolphinarium in the Caribbean, work explored in this influential book. Kaleidoscopic cover featuring volunteer naturalist Margaret Howe Lovatt and bottlenose dolphin Peter, who was featured on the TV series Flipper and would later take his own life by refusing to breathe after being moved to a claustrophobic abandoned bank building in Miami. 286 pp.