Brite Intelligent TIp: Crime-Fighting Cloned Canines
Maybe you can clone your pup for the greater good! Here is a great dinner table discussion posted by Scientific America…
Six cloned Labrador retrievers are now using their olfactory prowess to help officials find drugs and explosives at airports and harbors across South Korea. The dogs—which all share the name “Toppy,” a combination of “tomorrow” and “puppy”—became the world’s first working cloned sniffer dogs when they reported for duty last Thursday, according to BBC News.
Thanks to a highly successful drug-detecting donor dog from Canada and 16 months of training, the new class of recruits, customs officials hope, will increase performance and decrease costs.
“They have a superior nature. They are active and excel in accepting the training,” Kim Nak-seung, a trainer at the Customs Service-affiliated dog training center told MSNBC in April.
Fewer than 10 percent of naturally born dogs are typically qualified to become professional sniffers, based on a behavior test and rigorous physical training. All seven dogs in the cloned litter passed the test, and only one puppy didn’t complete the training—due to an injury.
What’s next? Headline: “Cloned fighting fish sink enemy sub!”
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