Is it possible to train water animals for police search operations?

I am familiar with the use of dolphins and sea lions to aid the US Military in retrieving used ordnance and even looking for possible live ones under proper circumstances.

I am also familiar with the harbor defense program that uses dolphins, but, that is a classified program, so....

The fact of the matter is that cadaver detection dogs can and do find people under water, if properly trained and deployed, there is no need to have sea/water creatures trained to do it!!

This is a very Intelligent question to ask. It is not likely that most fish or water reptiles would be good for doing this, however mammals ls are perfectsuitableble. Animals such as otters, sea lions, walruses and seals have extremely sensitive whiskers which cseancense the smallest possible movement, electrical current, or taste in the water, They also have a goseancense of smell, even under water which is about as good as a dog's. If dogs are capable f being trained to find dead bodies, drugs, weapons and missing people, there should be no reason why they can't do the same thing. Sharks casenses a drop of blood in the water from miles away, cansensee movement and electric currents from miles away and can see things much clearer than we can so they could even be used. At first you think that they would eat the deat boddies, but there are smaller members of the shark family which do not attack humans, yet are still extremely sensative, so yes, to sum up, water animals are certainly capible of helping the police, although the police don't seem to be interested in this idea which could help them so much.

Hmmm. Well, I've never heard of it happening for real, but my son watches a cartoon called "Rescue Heros" and on there, there is a dolphin that they use for something like that. I think it might be search and rescue or something. I dunno.

But as for it being possible and really happening, I think it could work. It'd probably take a lot more work than training a dog, but it could possibly be worth it in the end, because the water animals would be able to go places where some dogs or something couldn't.

Its not likely that most fish or water reptiles would be good for doing this, however mammals ls are perfectsuitableble. Animals such as otters, sea lions, walruses and seals have extremely sensitive whiskers which cseancense the smallest possible movement, electrical current, or taste in the water, They also have a goseancense of smell, even under water which is about as good as a dog's.

We have a rather large snapping turtle residing in our 3 acre pond. While I have gotten him to seek out decaying people (as well as fish, birds, snakes, other turtles, etc), I have not been successful at getting him to report the find to me. The best I've managed is a turtle poop encrusted tennis shoe floating on the surface. I've "clicked" at him, to him and around him, with no success. I've ignored him (for months at a time!), but still no change. If I give him food....I get more poop...nothing else. I put him in a dark room ( a new method learned on YA), and he just took a nap. Does this mean he's "Turned" on me??? Should I try a gentle leader or a halti on him? I'll never use one of those medieval pinching collars on him, so don't even say that! He's my little Schnookie Wookums!

BTW....He'll "naturally" protect me TO THE DEATH without ANY attack training!

Marine mammals are among the most intellingent of animals on earth. they can be trained easily, as anyone who has gone to see sea lions, dolphins and even walruses perform tricks knows. However, these animals, intelligent though they are, rely more on senses other than smell to hunt. Dolphins rely on echolocation, and seals and sea lions rely on sight to locate prey. So, it would be unlikely that they can be trained to detect cadavers in the water.

Dolphins do not have a sense of smell in the water, neither do the other animals that have been listed. Sea lions can smell out of water which is how they can identify their young. Their sensory receptors could not detect an object not moving.

I say Marines, hands down yet its diverse now than if it were 'lower back interior the day'. immediately's Marines (and defense force) are experienced lots diverse than they was once. they are nonetheless the ideal of the ideal, yet even my dad (strolling lifeless) concurs that the circumstances have replaced. police officials have very good coaching to boot, in spite of the undeniable fact that it extremely is a various form of educating. they must be experienced and arranged to no longer harm somebody - the main objective being to serve and safeguard. they are experienced interior the secure thank you to understand in any difficulty, yet additionally socially experienced too. i do no longer think of the coaching is comparable.

NO!!!

A-no wild species are DOMESTICATED.

B-CADAVER DOGS are already available & efficient. They SCENT the decay!