Thanks to icons such as Sea World and Flipper, the dolphin has gained a reputation as one of nature's brightest and most capable of creatures. This is true. Dolphins are truly very intelligent animals who use problem solving skills and team work when hunting and are the only non-primate animals to engage in pleasure sex. However, dolphins also have the potential to be quite dangerous- particularly in the case of the Soviet military. As part of a Naval research in the Soviet Union, dolphins were trained to attack enemy vessels. It didn't end there. They were able to distinguish Soviet submarines from American ones based on the sound of the propellers and were trained to either kill enemy sailors caught in the water, or bring them to the surface for capture. Some even were trained for kamikaze missions in which they would have carried mines on their backs that would explode when hitting enemy ships. This sort of changes what we might have thought before, doesn't it? Flipper was, in fact, a Communist.
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