[nasc7] animals with special missions

Windy Lou R. Bagay, Erika Joy L. Calubaquib, Jenifer S. Calvo, Carlo Joseph M. Moskito,

Andreau A. Narte, Glorie Faye G. Obispo and Carmel Joy P. Regalado

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h The Ultimate Treasure Hunt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Truffle_washed_and_cutted.jpg

http://herbarium.usu.edu/fungi/funfacts/truffind.htm

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h Truffle

• difficult to find and veryexpensive as a result. In1994, black truffles sold for$350 to $500 a pound• BLACK GOLD, or black Perigord truffles (Tuber melanosporum, )

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h Truffle

• generally served raw, andshaved over steamingbuttered pasta or salads; (e.g.in roasted fowl, in foie graspreparations, in pâtés, or instuffings)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truffle_%28fungus%29#Culinary_use

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h Pigs for Truffle Search

http://baygourmet.tripod.com/history.html

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• used to hunt trufflesbecause of natural affinity forthe fungi• eager to find the prizes, butdifficult to keep fromdevouring the truffle

http://baygourmet.tripod.com/history.html

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• Only sows are used - the smell of Italian white truffles (Tuber magnatum Pico),contains pheromones that are attractive to female pigs, but not to boars.


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h Dogs for Truffle Search

• lighter, easier to manage, and more trainable• generally used for searchingblack gold


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http://www.trufflehuntingdogs.com/Truffle%20Dogs.html

Training a Dog for Truffle Search

Teach your dog how to retrieve a

rubber ball

Let your dog retrieve now a

smelly Gorgonzolacheese

Rehearsals: REALTruffle Search

The night before a truffle hunt the dog is not fed so it will be eager to find truffles for the treat.

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reCat Bombs

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reCat Bombs

Ancient Egypt Since Egyptians paid reverence to felines, Persian set loose as many cats as they can on the battlefield

References for Cat Bombs:http://www.columbia.edu/cu/thefed/v3/volume18/9/militaryanimalsarefun.shtml, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4808342.stm,

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reCat Bombs

Ancient EgyptWhen the Egyptians were faced with either harming the cats or surrendering, they chose the latter.

References for Cat Bombs:http://www.iridescent-publishing.com/rtm/ch5p9.htm, http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=636, http://www.gwpda.org/photos/animals.htm

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reCat Bombs : World War I

used in the trenches as an attempt to keep the rat population down used as poison gas “detectors”

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reCat Bombs : World War II

Guide bombs to sink ships since cats have such a strong disdain of getting wet.

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reCat Bombs : World War II

If you attached a cat to a bomb and drop it in the vicinity of a ship, the cat’s instinct to avoid the water would force it to guide the bomb to the enemy’s deck

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reCat Bombs : Cold War

Cats become unconscious mid-drop – not used in actual war

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Perfect covert listeningdevise or bugging devise –“Operation Acoustic Kitty”

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Surgically alter the cat byplacing a bugging deviceinside him and running anantenna through its tail

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Project took five years and$15 million dollars before thefirst field test

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Bugged kitty was releasednear a Russian compound inWashington and wasimmediately hit by a carwhile crossing the street. Theproject was ended soon after.

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reWar Pigs

Covering pigs in tar, pitch,or other flammablesubstances and then settingthem ablaze

http://www.militaryfactory.com/smallarms/detail.asp?smallarms_id=148http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_pigs_%28ancient_military_weapon%29

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reWar Pigs

Drive the conflagrant swinetowards the enemy

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reWar Pigs

Squealing and movementof the burning hogs headedtoward the enemy armywould cause elephants(tanksof ancient times) and horsesto flee in panic

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reWar Pigs

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reLand Mine Detecting Rats

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Setting them on fire andpointing them at yourenemy’s villages or camps

http://floridakeystreasures.com/creatures/pouchrat, http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/plague/origins/spread.shtml, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambian_pouch_rat

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used in one of the earliestexamples of biologicalwarfare: catapulting deadrats and corpses of plaguevictims into the city in hopesto spread the disease

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Detecting Landmines: trained to smell explosive material by associating it with a food reward African pouch rats, also called Gambian Pouch Rats

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Advantages: cheaper to train and their small size will rarely trigger a mine as they find them

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reKiller Dolphins

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reKiller Dolphins

helping them guide lost divers to killing enemy divers via the “Swimmer Nullification”

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/blueplanet/alert/slideshows/dolphinslide_04.html, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Mammal_Program), http://www.earthfirstjournal.org/article.php?id=174

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reKiller Dolphins

The Swimer Nullification: Hypodermic needles containing compressed CO2 were attached to the snout of a dolphin which was trained to inject it into divers who were found in restricted areas. Once injected, the compressed carbon dioxide would expand inside the diver which would kill him and allow his corpse to float to the surface

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rePigeon Guided Missiles

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used as primitive form of airmail (one of the only lines of communications left open to get messages out of the city)

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Cher Ami, even received military honors by saving the lives of 194 American soldiers who were stuck behind enemy lines.

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as the guidance system in missiles : Project Pigeon lead by BF Skinnercancelled by military during testing because the idea was felt to be too radical

http://www.gwpda.org/photos/animals.htm, http://www.cix.co.uk/~mhayhurst/jdhayhurst/pigeon/pigeon.html, http://asofyet.org/muppet/other/insanities/project_pigeon.html

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reMilitary Insects: Spiders

used by weapons manufacturers to spin silk that was used for the production of crosshairs in bomb sights.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/11/24/uk.newwaranimals/index.html)(http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0876/is_87/ai_n15338523)(http://www.potatomuseum.com/exPotatoBeetle.html)(http://entomology.montana.edu/historybug/insects_as_bioweapons.htm)(A Survey of the Use of Animals in Warfare (http://www.primidi.com/2005/08/17.html

Major Reference: http://www.cynical-c.com/2007/06/18/7-unusual-military-animals/

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reMilitary Insects: Bees

Romans - fire them into besieged cities or an attacking army; which was latter adopted in the Middle Ages

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reMilitary Insects: Glow Worms

Soft light emanating from glow worms were used by soldiers to read maps of the battlefield in the trenches at night.

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reMilitary Insects: Glow Worms

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reBat Bombers

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reBat Bombers

Outfitting with incendiary bombs and dropping them from a plane to wreak havoc on a city below

Major Reference: http://www.cynical-c.com/2007/06/18/7-unusual-military-animals/

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reBat Bombers

Free-tailed bat was selected because there were plenty of them available and they could fly with a one ounce incendiary payload which was attached to its chest by a pin and string

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reBat Bombers

Testing did not go as well as planned when some of the bats escaped with live incendiary bombs and set fire to a hangar and a general’s car The idea was finally shelved due to time constraints.

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Guide Dogs “Seeing Eye Dogs”

use to guide blind people so that they are able to negotiate the world otherwise unassisted. They serve as, quite literally, the eyes for their owner.

http://www.k9web.com/dog-faqs/service.html#assistance

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Guide Dogs “Seeing Eye Dogs”

The breeds used are yellow and black Labrador Retrievers and German Shepherd Dogs, usually. The formal training takes about 6 months.

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Hearing and Seeing Dogs

Trained to assist deaf people, with varying degrees of impairment. They alert their owner to a variety of sounds, usually by coming up to the person and going back to the source of the sound.

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Seizure-alert dogs, medical alert dogs and psychiatric dogs

specifically trained to help someone who has epilepsy or a seizure disorder

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Health Benefits

Reduce stress-induced symptoms. Requires Less Medical Care Add Years to Life

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Therapy Dogs

Dates back to the late 18thcentury, when animals wereintroduced into mentalinstitutions to help socializepatients with mental disorders.

http://www.holisticonline.com/stress/stress_pet-therapy.htm

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Therapy Dogs

Dates back to the late 18thcentury, when animals wereintroduced into mentalinstitutions to help socializepatients with mental disorders.

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Detection Dogs

A detection dog or snifferdog is a dog that is trained toand works at using its senses(almost always the sense ofsmell) to detect substancessuch as explosives, illegaldrugs, or blood.

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Detection Dogs

training of Aspin or AsongPinoy to replace expensive K9dogs

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Animals in Space Exploration

The major reason was thatthey did not want to risk thehuman lives. The animal wassent to space to investigate thebiological processes, themicrogravity gravity and thespace flight on these animals.

http://hubpages.com/hub/animals-first-on-space

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Fruit Flies (1947) Albert II, a Rhesus Monkey– first monkey on space (1949)Mouse (1950)

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Laika, first animal launchedinto orbit (1957)

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Monkeys Able and Bakerbecame the first monkeys tosurvive spaceflight (1959)

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Two Philippine monkeys,Patricia and Mike in space,May 22, 1952.

http://history.nasa.gov/printFriendly/animals.html

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Why use animals in Special Missions?

Since this is an exploratory research, risking lives of humans is a big NO. Help man in doing things man cannot explore.

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Why NOT use animals in Special Missions?

Animals are always in danger. Most of them die after their special missions

[nasc7] animals with special missions

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