How cool is this (1 Viewer)

[ShaneH]

http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/03/2/19/16531372.cfm

whats next, aardvark assasins? Thats wild stuff

 

[Joseph DeMartino]

They've been doing this sort of thing for almost 40 years with various forms of sea life, especially aquatic mammals. George C. Scott did a bad movie based on an equally bad novel, The Day of the Dolphin, back in the 1970s that used the same concept. (Albeit with talking dolphins and a total misunderstanding of the real program.)

Regards,

Joe

 

[StephenA]

Wouldn't announcing that give the enemy a chance to look for the sea lions and other animals they use? It's still cool that they use them though. It shows that animals aren't as dumb as some people think. The story kind of reminds me of this seal named Hoover that lived at the New England Aquarium in the early '80s. Hoover could actually talk. A guy used to walk by and see Hoover every day for like 8 years I believe, and taught Hoover to say a few things. I don't remember the details exactly, because I was 6 the last time I saw him.

 

[Dean Cooper]

I wonder what was the first animal that humans used to complete a task. Dogs for hunting? Birds as messengers?

 

[Dennis Nicholls]

I wonder what was the first animal that humans used to complete a task.

We first used yeast to make beer....

 

[Jason Pancake]

We first used yeast to make beer....

Ok boy, go make beer!

Good eukaryote

 

[Joseph DeMartino]

We first used yeast to make beer....

And we haven't advance in this are one iota in all the thousands of years since.

Regards,

Joe

 

[andrew markworthy]

I wonder what was the first animal that humans used to complete a task.

Well, there's carrier pigeons and guard dogs - they've been going some time.

During WWII, the Russians trained dogs to walk up to enemy vehicles (such as tanks). The dogs had mines attached to them :frowning: . The trouble is that the Russians had conditioned the dogs on Russian vehicles, and when the dogs were let loose on the battlefield ...