Tag: Dolphins
Remember the hubbub about Ukraine’s military dolphins? Turns out the U.S. Navy has them, too. Our mammalian friends won’t be heading into fin-to-fin combat anytime soon, though. As the Guardian explains, they’re mostly used to find underwater mines: Yes, the navy trains and keeps dolphins, whose powerful innate echolocation abilities help sailors spot suspicious undersea objects that […]
UPDATE: The story of three dolphins escaping was a hoax. The dolphins do still exist, however, but they’re being safely contained from civilians. Sorry. The Ukrainian army has a problem. Three of their military dolphins have escaped, presumably to go get laid or do other dolphin things. Now, what constitutes a military dolphin, you might […]
Last night Peter Gabriel gave a TED talk announcing the launch of his most recent labor of love: The Interspecies Internet. Seriously. Are you ready to talk to dolphins, apes, elephants, and other “self-aware” animals online? “What would happen if we could somehow find new interfaces – visual, audio — to allow us to communicate with the […]
