Kunekune pigs are being trained by the US Navy to hunt out and disarm undersea anti-ship mines. Or that might be dolphins. The documentation is unclear.
- Log in to post comments
More like this
Now he's a captive dolphin rescuer speaking about those training Navy dolphins to find enemy mines. Or was in 2003 at least. This is another from the vault, and like the last, another from someone else's vault. Brent Hoff interviews Richard O'Barry.
See below for full text, which originally…
In honor of Veteran's Day, we must not forget to thank the dolphins (and more recently sea lions) that have been active members of the US Military. The US military used dolphins trained to find and disarm underwater mines in the Iraq War. Eight dolphins served as the first marine mammals in active…
It didn't take but two weeks for President George W. Bush to resume his war on science. Collateral damage this time will be of the cetacean order, thanks to an executive order exempting the Navy from any inconvenient environmental laws.
From the AP:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush exempted the…
A Japanese whaling fleet recently set sail amidst much local fanfare, but Greenpeace is yet again determined to interfere with the hunt by placing themselves in between the whales and the Japanese harpoons. Unlike some other whaling protest groups, Greenpeace relies strictly on peaceful non-violent…
Pssst. No video :-(
The video is working fine for me on safari.
Submarine Kune Kune pigs :-)
I saw a program on TV where they were using trained Gambian giant pouched rats (same animal that brought in the monkey fever which shut down the pet trade in prairie dogs) to do mine detecting. I don't think any harm came to the rats as they were too light to set off the mines.
Who knows what they'll think of next. Animals are often better at doing some things than we are!
Animals are better at doing a lot of things than we are. Their senses are more acute and they are more sensible.
I know that the US Navy use sea lions. I remember reading this article before Christmas about them.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1230814/Forget-Seals-…
groundbreaking research being done on tapeworms. The linked abstract below takes you into the life of a tapeworm
groundbreaking research being done on tapeworms. The linked abstract below takes you into the life of a tapeworm
I don't think any harm came to the rats as they were too light to set off the mines. Animals are often better at doing some things than we are!The linked abstract below takes you into the life of a tapeworm
Oh no pigs would not expect anything like this was very surprised
from pigs to expect something like a really interesting study
don't think any harm came to the rats as they were too light to set off the mines.