Police sniffer vultures plan a 'disaster'
Police in Germany imported the birds from Carinthia, Austria, in the hope their amazing eyesight, fantastic sense of smell and ability to find dead prey would help them to find missing bodies.
But the three birds - named Sherlock, Miss Marples and Columbo - have failed to find a single cadaver laid out in the wild for them - unless put in front of their beaks.
And one refuses to fly at all. Sherlock walks around at a speed similar to a waddling duck making him far less efficient than the average sniffer dog.
In addition the other two birds - Miss Marple and Columbo - spend most of their time fighting.
An insider working with the project at Walsrode in Lower Saxony, Germany, confirmed: "The project has been a disaster."
"Everyone knows what vultures do when they find a body and they're not going to be as easy to call off as a Labrador. You could find half the evidence disappearing down their beaks," said an officer :O)
Ananova
lol (naughty) ;-)
You mean they might damage the evidence :O)
Yes Camel are a good idea but camel toes might be a wee bit of a problem..:)
I wonder if we can use Camels ? Trouble is they might get the hump if they don't find anything.
She was in the bowl too! She always hogged the little tower thing ;-/
I liked Lacey.. Cagney was too butch !
We tried with our goldfish - they found them but then they forgot where they had seen them ;-/How I miss Cagney and Lacey - they were lovely fish :-(
After watching G Force, We are training our Guinea pig Keisha to do some tricks. The best she has managed to do is chewed the remote to the new Telly I bought..:(
Rizks has been training his pet rat "Arnold", but it keeps sniffing its way to the Bombay cowpatti instead :O(
What will they think of next lolz