Animals Inspirational animals

[Pete Thomas]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeGZ-3nT8yk

 

[Pete Effamy]

Are we sure that it's the same rat for the entire 5 years??

BANG! - He's found one..

 

[Jules]

Are we sure that it's the same rat for the entire 5 years??

BANG! - He's found one..

That's like some really dark Monty Python routine...

 

[Pete Effamy]

That's like some really dark Monty Python routine...

Yes. “Highly trained “ to find the mines.

 

[Pete Thomas]

How do they actually train them I wonder.

 

[Pete Effamy]

How do they actually train them I wonder.

“Sit there little Harry.. bang!”
“Sit there little Archie.. bang!”
“Sit there...

 

[Pete Effamy]

There are many animals with amazing skills. I can’t get over the Chimps who learned sign language - one calling a young woman stupid, as her signing was poor.
And this story:

Chimp who used sign language heartbreaking reaction to keeper's miscarriage

Mostly, we underestimate animals through our need to be completely superior. Any dog owner will be amazed that “science “ only relatively recently declared that dogs have dreams. All that REM and movement in their sleep is a bit of a giveaway.

 

[Pete Thomas]

Mostly, we underestimate animals through our need to be completely superior.

AS in think your cat loves you because it appears to show affection at certain times.

 

[Guenne]

Training takes about 8 to 12 months they say.
So it simply would be too expensive to just blow them up.
And they are too light to make the mines explode, that's why they "use" them.

Cheers, Guenne

 

[Targa]

How do they actually train them I wonder.

The same way they train any animal for such purposes such as dogs sniffing out drugs.
Put them in an enclosure that contains variety of substances including in this case a sample of the explosive then when the animal goes and sniffs that item it is given a reward, usually food. So it learns to find that smell and ignore all others.

 

[Colin the Bear]

Wouldn't a mole rat be more efficient? Save all that digging. 😉