MOSCOW TIMES (Russia) 10 November 05 Turning Turtles Into Troops
A Rostov-on-Don scientist is offering to train tortoises for defense purposes, NTV television reported Wednesday.
Alexei Burikov, head of the biology department at Rostov-on-Don State Pedagogical University, told the channel that he had built special devices that attach to a tortoise's shell and vibrate, allowing a person to control the animal's movements.
Burikov said a small camera could also be fixed to the shell, allowing the controller to watch what is happening around the tortoise. "Monitoring could be conducted for both environmental and defense purposes," he said.
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