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Could birds be trained to tear down military barbed wire & razor wire defenses? (Or are the birds here AWOL from their training camp?)
by bell-cot 2y ago
Could birds be trained to tear down military barbed wire & razor wire defenses?
(Or are the birds here AWOL from their training camp?)
- lexicality 2y agoWhile corvids can use tools, I think they'd probably struggle with a pair of wire cutters
- lores 2y agoTo the laboratory!
- sambull 2y agoobviously lasers, corvidae with lasers
- marcosdumay 2y agoAnd that was how everybody on the North hemisphere went blind...
- pjmlp 2y agoTeam work, each one holds one end. :)
- _kst_ 2y agoMounted on a coconut.
- nonrandomstring 2y agoWell we've used pigeons fr missile guidance before [0], and for messaging [1], so birds have a firm place in the military including having their own special units [2] More generally, the history of warfare is all about taking the enemy's resources and using them as weapons against the foe. This will be a defining feature of future cyberwar and AI - everything we build to "protect ourselves" will at some point be repurposed to advantage an enemy. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_pigeon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_pigeon [2] https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/warfares-unsung-pigeon/ https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/warfares-unsung-pi...
- codedokode 2y agoSadly Wikipedia doesn't describe a specific mechanism that helps pigeons to navigate. I wonder do pigeons simply fly high enough that they can see hundred miles around?
- nonrandomstring 2y agoThey use magnetism AFAIK
- thenthenthen 2y ago(And) smell apparently (sample size of one..) https://youtu.be/t4cw-Av2Pk4?feature=shared https://youtu.be/t4cw-Av2Pk4?feature=shared (Around 28min mark)
- econ 2y agoEvery day they build a mesh network and relay some message. The message seems to be very similar every day but a few hundred km away it is completely different.
- mr_toad 2y agoGeese have also been employed for security including by military forces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_goose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_goose
- webdoodle 2y agoDolphin's were trained to bypass enemy underwater defenses to plant explosives on enemy ships while they were in there home port. They were also used to find mines and other underwater devices to be disarmed. Most birds just aren't big enough to do real damage to barbed wire or razor wire defenses. Now if you could somehow train the birds to harass a herd of cattle into running down the fence, that might work. Sort of like the Hitchcock movie The Birds.
- pelagic_sky 2y agoCockies would gladly do the job for free. https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/rga3pf/cockatoo_ripping_off_antibird_spikes/ https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/rga3pf/cockatoo_...