Morroccan Government offers US monkeys to help detect land mines in Iraq

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Has anyone else read about this? I can't find anything on it anywhere. Could it possible be related to the encroaching scarcity of bananas? And which country did those dolphins come from anyway? Tunisia, maybe?

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Monday, 7 April 2003 05:23 (twenty-two years ago)

There was an overly long human-interest piece on the dolphins here (Louisiana) cause some of them were from Gulfport, Mississippi. In the words of their trainer, "It's great for all Americans to contribute to the effort, even American animals."

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 7 April 2003 05:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I am not making this up. It says so here, about halfway down the page, in Portuguese. You have to find the word 'macacos'.

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Monday, 7 April 2003 06:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and also here http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20030324-064259-1443r.htm

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Monday, 7 April 2003 06:33 (twenty-two years ago)

poor monkeys :(

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 7 April 2003 06:52 (twenty-two years ago)

It's like every animal can detect land mines except us.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 7 April 2003 06:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Them bats is smart, they got radar.

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 7 April 2003 07:56 (twenty-two years ago)

but the US has plenty of monkeys of its own - I mean, one of them is in the White House.

thank you, thank you.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 7 April 2003 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Humans are very good a detecting land mines, they tend to go up in the air and come down minus limbs.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 7 April 2003 08:12 (twenty-two years ago)

takoma the minesweeping dolphin ran away!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 April 2003 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

i. he had doubts abt the ethical nature of a pre-emptive war waged w/o UN support, or
ii. the wily iraqi have been training honey-trap sardines out to the ocean

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 April 2003 09:15 (twenty-two years ago)

dolphin friendly uday

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 7 April 2003 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

they should send martin skidmore and his bleeding edge skills in.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 7 April 2003 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

When we had the Foot'n'muth crisis and the BSE crisis I advocated send condemned British cows over to clear minefields. They were going to die anyway lets make their deaths worthwhile.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 7 April 2003 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Wasn't the meat sold to Third World countries?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 7 April 2003 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

No, the cows where burnt on huge pyres across the country.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 7 April 2003 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd be great at clearing those mines. I presume they are on a rigid grid pattern, with numbers on the starting squares and so on?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 7 April 2003 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

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