Answered from No Such Thing As The Otters Circling · No Such Thing As A Fish · 2026-11-05
Splash is a two-year-old Asian river otter trained to find the bodies of missing people, reported by the US military news site Stripes. With its handler, Splash was deployed on 33 searches in a year and found 11 bodies, a hit rate the panel calls extraordinary. An Army lieutenant said the exercises had previously used detection dogs and even vultures.
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