Subject: Idiots in Government: US navy is retraining its mine-hunting dolphins to help save an elusive, endangered species Wed Jan 04, 2017 10:25 pm
Everything is fair in war, even deploying dolphins. Since the 1960s, the US navy has run a marine-mammal program that trains dolphins and sea lions to achieve feats that even the best machines can’t: sniffing out mines, navigating when lost in the open sea, and acting as security guards for strategic assets.