How It Works

ANIMALS WITH JOBS

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Some animals have been successful­ly trained to levels high enough to secure them a job. These jobs greatly benefit diverse groups of people on a daily basis. Service dogs, for example, are trained specially to suit the needs of those they will accompany. This includes guide dogs trained to navigate the world for blind people and keep them safe, service dogs who know to guard their owner when they experience seizures or dogs who are trained to distinguis­h between sounds and alert their deaf owners.

Many animals learn niche skills for work in the military. Dolphins have proved trainable, using their underwater echolocati­on skills to seek out mines in the dark depths of the ocean. When it signals that it has spotted a mine, the dolphin is given a buoy that it places at the location for future reference and investigat­ion.

 ?? ?? This image shows a dolphin during military training
This image shows a dolphin during military training

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