South African elephants are trained to detect, using smell, a highly developed sense of these mammals, explosives and poachers in the region
The project, supported by the Research Division of the US Army, was inspired by elephants in Angola which were observed while they used their trunks to avoid mines left over from decades of civil war.
Sean Hensman, farm Adventures with Elephants in South Africa, says that "elephant nose is amazing. Think of mammoths seeking food in the snow ".
During the exercises, a 17-year-old elephant named Chishuru was walking past a row of buckets, one of which smell of dynamite. The elephant was trained to sniff each, and when the bucket reaches the traces of TNT, raise one leg. Chishuru found the correct bucket every time and was rewarded with his favorite food, lettuce.
Source: Mail Online
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