Counsel&Heal online health magazine relates that animals, ranging from dogs to dolphins, have shown incredible levels of intelligence. These animals can be trained by humans to help sniff out bombs, drugs and many other items that a human cannot. Counsel&Heal elaborates, in the latest exhibition of extraordinary performance, two navy trained dolphins helped researchers locate a rare 19th century torpedo near the San Diego Coast in California. This torpedo, with 50 of its kind made, will be put on display at the Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington, notes Counsel&Heal.
"It was the first torpedo that could be released into the ocean and follow a track," commented an official at the warfare systems center. These torpedoes were one of the first ones made with the capability of propelling itself. Counsel&Heal says the particular one that the dolphins found, called the Howell, is an 11-feet long brass gem. Although it is inoperable, there are only a few of these torpedoes in museums for people to look at and admire. The Howell is estimated to be around 130 years old, concludes Counsel&Heal.