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US Navy using dolphins and other animals as weapons

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  • 20-12-2005 5:13am
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    Pet
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    Read more here.

    What do you think? I think it's pretty sick and disgusting to use friendly and intelligent animals like dolphins for the purpose of warfare. But then again, this is America we're talking about..


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    tallus
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    The russians have been doing it for years too apparently.


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    senordingdong
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    I don't think they'd have de-classified it if they were doing anything that could get them into trouble.


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    tj-music.com
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    what´s new?


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    Reaver772
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    In WW2 the russians trained dogs to look for their dinner under tanks when a whistle was blown, then they took the dogs to the front strapped explosives onto the dogs and blew a whistle. Unfortunately they didn't realise that the dogs could tell the difference between russian and german tanks. Afterwards they trained the dogs using captured german tanks!


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    tj-music.com
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    Dogs are companion animals and take pride and joy in getting trained and praised. I think it is not so easy to do that with Dolphins although I could be wrong as a nice portion of fish for a good dolphin might be just what they need to make him become a kamikaze - dolphin.

    It gives me the shiver thinking that animals are used as bait for wars of any kind:mad:


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    tallus
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    agreed tj-music It's sickening...


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    luckat
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    Dolphins love training games and will play happily with a trusted human - see Karen Pryor's book Lads Before the Wind, about how she learned to train animals in a dolphinarium.

    The idea of people training animals so they can blow the animals up *almost* makes you wish there were really a Hell.


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