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Video: 7 animals that have mastered professions that not everyone can handle
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Pets usually have only one purpose: to be a friend to humans. However, there are also such representatives of the fauna who are officially in the service. At the same time, animals are often involved in precisely such work, where a person cannot cope on his own, or people are too uncomfortable and dangerous to perform such duties.
Military
There are many animals serving in the military. For example, dolphins serve in the US Navy, where animals are trained in a special marine mammal program along with sea lions. Dolphins can easily spot mines in muddy waters or at great depths. In Russia, these intelligent mammals perform the same function. But for sabotage purposes, dolphins cannot be used in any country: they simply refuse to perform such tasks. But seals are capable of performing the role of saboteurs, which is used by the armed forces of some countries.
In addition to sea animals, military service includes dogs suitable for completely different tasks, from guarding objects to laying explosives, Gambian marsupial rats with the ability to detect explosives, and even pigs, which can panic Islamists by their very species, so how to treat the unclean representatives of the fauna.
Gas detector
Coal mines are considered to be a very dangerous place where gas can be released at any time. Back in the early twentieth century, Scottish physiologist John Scott Haldane suggested using canaries, which show the first signs of poisoning early enough, and miners have the opportunity to leave the dangerous place in time. Fortunately, since the time when tiny birds began to be used in mines, technological progress has made great strides, and now there is no need to endanger living beings. However, the practice of using canaries in coal mines did not end until the 1980s.
Guide
The fact that dogs are often in the service of people with vision problems has been known for a long time. Such animals are trained for a long time to perform their duties in special centers, and then they are handed over to the owner. However, the role of a guide can be played not only by dogs, but also by mini-horses.
These animals are naturally endowed with the ability to direct, and they also have a very calm character and, as a rule, are very focused, that is, they are not distracted by extraneous stimuli. A guide horse is also ideal for those people who are allergic to dogs. At the same time, mini-horses live on average about 50 years, and the life of dogs is usually several times shorter.
Helpers
A monkey can become the most real helper of a person with disabilities. They are, for the most part, easy to learn and contact, and the Capuchins are best placed as a companion. Provided that the animals undergo special training, these intelligent little creatures in the state of Kentucky in the United States can officially be helpers. They are able to serve the owner a glass of water, bring a newspaper, serve slippers and even set the table. In general, specially trained monkeys become indispensable for people with mobility impairments. They turn household appliances on and off, pick up and pass dropped objects to the owner, dial a phone number and can scratch the owner's back if necessary. Moreover, they live from 30 to 40 years.
Security guards
Undoubtedly, in this profession, the palm among animals belongs to dogs. But people have learned to use other representatives of the fauna to protect objects. For example, in England, the owners of private houses use eagles to guard them, which do not allow strangers to enter the territory, attacking them and attacking them with their large strong beak. And in Las Vegas, a real huge python serves as a guard in one of the shops. At the same time, the inscription at the entrance informs that during the day he does not touch anyone, but at night it is not recommended to fall into his "embrace", because the python can simply strangle a person.
Dolphins act as guards off the coast of the United States. They ply along the coast and keep sharks out of the coastal zone in those places where there are beaches and people swim. In addition, dolphins lure sea predators into specially placed traps, from where the shark cannot get out on its own, and a special service then takes them out to the open ocean, away from the coast.
In Dumbarton, Scotland, geese serve as guards for a whiskey distillery. At the sight of strangers, geese make such a noise that they not only frighten uninvited guests, but thus also call the usual security.
Ecologists
Scientists from the University of California recruited seals and fur seals to the work. On the bodies of animals, special equipment is installed that transmits data on the state of the water of the World Ocean to the space satellite: temperature, salinity, the presence of impurities. Due to the fact that marine animals can swim where people are not able to reach, unique information was obtained. During molting, the fixed device simply falls off the body of a seal or fur seal, without harming or causing discomfort.
Builders
In the service of NASA were ferrets used in the construction of space objects. Moving animals pulled the switching wires through narrow pipes, and also cleaned them with a neatly fixed special brush.
It is no secret that many passengers are nervous before air travel, and it can be difficult to pull yourself together. Remembering that the best psychotherapists are animals, the administration of the airport of the city of San Francisco decided to create an unusual brigade of "employees" - the tailed patrol (Wag brigade). 22 good-natured shaggy dogs and one adorable pig do an excellent job of calming passengers.
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