
Watson and the Shark, by John Singleton Copley, 1778. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
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“Ten dolphins are now being trained for special tasks in the Ukrainian state oceanarium, and the Ukrainian military are regularly training the animals for detecting things on the seabed,” a military official told a Russian newspaper in 2012. The source went on to say that some dolphins would be trained to combat enemy swimmers, using special knives or pistols affixed to their heads. The Ukrainian Defense Ministy later denied the program’s existence.
Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1892