Canines aren’t the only animals who can land jobs in the military. The US has trained bottlenose dolphins to carry out a range of military tasks, from locating underwater mines to flagging the presence of enemy swimmers for harbor defense. The Navy Marine Mammal Program at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (or SPAWAR) in San Diego, California trains 85 dolphins and 50 sea lions, according to SPAWAR spokesman Jim Fallin. NBC reported in 2002 that the program got $14 million in funding a year, and that it has the Pentagon’s financial backing through the year 2020. The program …read more
Source: Business Insider
