The navies of different countries have long been using seals of various species and other marine animals. In the USA, for example, the Californian sea lions (eared seal) are very trusted. Adult males (boppers) easily acquire the skills to exist in a new environment.
They are trained in a certain way and used in special military operations. As a rule, subversive mechanisms are installed on these animals.
Seals, on the other hand, are guarding secret US naval bases, tracking down divers and scuba divers-scouts of the enemy. Californian sea lions have even been taught to clip on divers with special clamps that act like handcuffs. The US Navy currently has 28 seals serving as underwater guards and one seal serving as a scout in Washington State waters. On his account there are already 4 enemy scouts.
The great cormorant is now used by humans as an assistant in hunting, or rather, in fishing. In the countries of Asia and the Mediterranean Sea, cormorants are trained to find from the air and point out large schools of fish to fishing trawlers. In addition to cormorants, trained pelicans also help fishermen. On the neck of a cormorant (pelican), the owner puts on a special collar that prevents the bird from swallowing the caught fish. But after a successful fishing the collar is removed from the bird and fed to its fill.
The Mongols adapted the golden eagles - strong and powerful birds (their wingspan is 3 m) - as guards for a herd of sheep, goats, cows from the attack of wolves. The golden eagle rises into the sky and watches the herd from a height, and when he sees a wolf, he flies down with a bullet and attacks the gray predator with his sharp claws and beak.
It is impossible to teach an electric eel that lives in the Amazon to hunt fish and other animals, but here, too, a person manages to discover innovative moves that he turns to his advantage. The fact is that the Amazonian electric eel, when threatened, generates an electric current with a power of 500 watts.
Japanese scientists have learned how to receive, preserve and use this category for their own purposes. In recent years, the lights of New Year trees in Japanese cities have been burning exclusively from the current of electric eels. The scientists of the Land of the Rising Sun have learned to use the Amazonian eel as portable power stations.
A guide dog is an irreplaceable friend of visually impaired people. However, they are now slowly being replaced by Scottish ponies. It is curious that the Scottish pony is in no way inferior to dogs in its natural qualities. By the way, their eyesight is even better (sharper) than that of dogs. They behave on the street much calmer, they are not distracted by cats, they do not react to foreign odors, and their memory is much better than that of dogs. Horses are easy to train and do not be capricious. Their main advantage is that they live 50 years, and dogs are only 10-12 years old.
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Snake massage is basically the same as snake therapy. A very fashionable fad. Usually snakes cause a negative reaction in us, but enterprising people have found new uses for snakes - therapy and natural massage by creeping reptiles. The contact between the human body and the cool snake has a positive effect on the human body. It turns out that the snakes are not slimy at all, and their scales do not cling to and do not scratch the skin of patients. For such procedures, only safe snakes are chosen that cannot harm patients. And the sensory abilities of snakes are even useful in direct contact for human health.
Rats are very useful rodents. Usually, sniffing operations for drugs, explosives and prohibited chemicals, as well as the territory protection service, are performed by dogs, but in South Africa, the detection of explosive devices (mines, grenades, etc.) was assigned to the gray bodies of marsupial rats.
These are large individuals, their body with a tail reaches a meter, and their weight is -8 kg. They are easy to train and then used by sappers to locate minefields and clear them. The Americans are interested in this example, and now they are developing a program to raise and train such hero rats, which in the future will defuse mines around the world.
Protection can be done not only by Rottweilers and Doberman Pinschers, but also by donkeys. Donkeys have excellent eyesight, amazing sense of smell and excellent hearing. They detect a stranger even earlier than dogs, and they know how to bite even more strongly than some canines.
Some shrewd hunter got the idea to use a common mallard as a bait while hunting. And now many hunters in the United States take with them the loud-throated mallard. Its task includes: to sit on a leash at the feet of the owner and quack at the top of his lungs, thus attracting its relatives to itself. Dozens of wild ducks flock to the cry of a real live mallard …