...and now from the Believe it Or Not files, Sharks are being recruited for spy work.... well... it's no fish story !! no fooling !! it's for real !!
Looks like the Pentagon is turning to sharks for spy recruits reports Roger Highfield, the Science Editor of the Telegraph.co.uk
"Shark brain implants that could turn the fish into "stealth spies" are being studied in a research project funded by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Pentagon.
Swimming in a ship's wake, a remote-controlled shark could track an enemy vessel's movements without being noticed, and under its own power.
The navy also hopes to exploit sharks' natural ability to sense delicate electrical gradients and follow chemical trails left by a vessel."
"The research builds on developments in brain implant technology which have already seen scientists controlling the movements of fish, rats and monkeys." reports the Telegraph & the Scotsman.
"Fisheries scientists are also investigating the use of neural implants to control the behaviour of farmed fish. The plan is to let the fish loose to forage for themselves and retrieve them when they are large enough to harvest. A team from the University of Rhode Island, has already developed implants that can make fish surface on command –so far it’s worked on tuna, cobia and salmon. Rats have been trained to pause for 10 seconds when they smell a target chemical, such as plastic explosive. The New York Police Department is considering recruiting rats to its disaster response team, to look for hidden bombs or people trapped under rubble."
..so the next time you are being tailed by a shark….well you know what to do !!!
See full story in the Telegraph and in the Scotsman Newspapers and the original story in the New Scientist Magazine.
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