Talk:Animals in espionage

"Espionage", and other military

To remove the redlink to espionage, I did pipe it, with some hesitation, to human-source intelligence, perhaps more properly clandestine human-source intelligence -- it's the more correct term for espionage; it's the human-source that troubles me.

Many of the cited cases are more general military than intelligence. There are a number of established uses for military working dogs, and a great many fiascos. For example, the Soviets, in WWII, taught explosive-laden dogs to associate tanks with food. Unfortunately (not just from the canine perspective), they trained them with Russian tanks. The bat incendiary concept went fairly far along before being abandoned. Is this really the correct title?

(looks at cat who is carefully CAT-scanning me) "And for whom are you working, Skyler?" There are countermeasures; see [1] Howard C. Berkowitz 18:50, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

I'm not sure. I started it as strictly for animal-spies, but over the writing it became more to do with the military use of animals. I would count the bats and missile-guiding pigeons as weapons rather than spies, actually, so I'm open to a change of title, whatever that might be. John Stephenson 03:52, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Dolphins

Does anyone have any more information on the use of dolphins for counter-espionage, mine clearance purposes, and so on? For example, the point about their being equipped with 'toxic dart guns' was new to me, since I heard somewhere that the dolphins were actually trained to butt people to death. Does anyone know how they would eliminate an enemy diver? John Stephenson 04:10, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Should there be something about moles?Gareth Leng 09:34, 6 January 2011 (UTC)