Ruchira has animals on the brain, and now so do I. I thought immediately of her post "Liquid Explosives and Solid Lies" when I found this curious news item about trained bees being used to detect explosives.
There go the hopes of all those corporations spending millions of
dollars on developing complex detection equipment!
And for your edification, this non-news news: First Dog Barney has been pressed into service to cheer up the troops in Iraq.
OK, so the last piece wasn’t really true, but this one is. Be very afraid, your job’s going to get outsourced next to the trained monkeys. It’s truly one for the macacas!
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2 responses to “Bees,Dogs and Monkeys (Sujatha)”
Sujatha:
Don’t they use monkeys to harvest coconuts in India also? I may be wrong. But I seem to vaguely recall reading about the practice in Kerala.
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Nope, not in Kerala, land of Workers’ Unions. A Coconut Pickers Union will fight to the death to prevent any other species taking over their livelihoods ( or demand ‘attimari’, a sort of payoff for using non-union employees/workers).
Well, not really. I was just kidding.
Nevertheless, things haven’t been the same for my mom trying to locate someone to do the honors with our coconut palms, ever since old Jonny passed away. They should really consider training monkeys there to mitigate the shortage of coconut pickers.
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