Iran is threatening to close the Straight of Hormuz and if so the military will send in their best allies- dolphins who have been trained to detect mines with their unique communication skills.
Dolphins have sonar that is so advanced that they can discern specific coins from hundreds of feet away . The US Navy have many bottlenose dolphins in the who are taught to hunt for mines and drop acoustic transponders nearby.In the above photo you can see dolphins with a tracking device attached to its fin
The the dolphins only detect the mines, they don’t destroy them and they are unharmed according to the military.
These US dolphins are being trained and used for peace purposes unlike the Iranian dolphins which were purchased 12 years ago from the Soviets who’s navy initially trained them kill and attack warships and frogmen. All of these killing dolphins who were trained to attack enemy frogmen with harpoons attached to their backs, or to drag them to the surface to be taken into captivity were sold to Iran, because the trainer could no longer feed them after they were sent to an aquatic attraction in Sevastopol.
Many of these killer dolphins are capable of undertaking kamikaze strikes against enemy carrying mines that would explode a ship on contact with its hull. In fact the
dolphins were allegedly trained to distinguish foreign and Soviet submarines use just by the sound of their propeller. Dolphins were allegedly trained to distinguish foreign and Soviet submarines use just by the sound of their propeller.
According to research by the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, numerous ex-Soviet military dolphins have been sold to aquariums around the world. The aquarium in Sevastopal was one of them, who in turn sold them to the Iranians for nefarious purposes.
Then seven hers later in 2007, 152 dolphins were washed up on Iran’s southern coast when Iranian fisherman were said to have beaten the animals who got entangled in their fishing nets. While the Iranians accused the US of being behind this , there is no documentation or proof of this. Some even say that these massive dolphin deaths were due to electromagnetic waves from various military vessels in the gulf, including Iranian vessels.
It is unconscionable that any animal is treated inhumanely or used for evil purposes. By nature dolphins are not violent creatures so to use them in this capacity towards violent acts is a major sin against nature. Unlike the Iranians, the US has only utilized the help of these amazing dolphins for good and not evil.
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Only a pure evil soul would hurt a Dolphin.
May they be cursed until judgement day if they hurt the Dolphins .
Actually, dolphins are pretty damn cruel to each other. They rape the females, they participate in infanticide, they routinely kill porpoises smaller than they are.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/16/BADK1L3JVQ.DTL
This article is in a humorous manner, but it has a bunch of links to good articles:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2009/05/13/dolphins_are_violent_predators_that_kill_their_own_babies.html
Having studied dolphin communication for years, I was not aware of this as this may be a new development or an isolated incident . With the waters becoming more and more polluted it is no wonder that behavioral changes may also occur. What I object to is man using dolphins for destructive means.
Basically, it’s mostly due to better methods of studying marine mammals. It’s incredibly hard to study anything in water that doesn’t stick around one place, there are so many things they don’t know about whales, dolphins/porpoises and sharks, for instance. So while some of the things may be new, most of it is just from being better able to study the animals in their natural habitat. You can study communication in a pool, but you can’t study natural behaviors.