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How Can Dolphins Detect Sea Mines?

The U.S. Navy has been training bottlenose dolphins for operations like detecting undersea mines and guarding vessels since the 1960s. Learn about the Marine Mammal Program in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/dolphin-disarm-sea-mine.htm See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  What Happens When Your Immune System Turns on You?

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  How Can Slime Mold Think Without a Brain?

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  What's the Difference Between Cougars, Pumas, and Mountain Lions?

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  Who Named the Americas?

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  BrainStuff Classics: Would Turkey Be So Popular Without Thanksgiving?

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  Could a Solar Flare Wipe Out Earth's Electronics?

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  How Does the Skin Barrier Work?

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  What's the History of Skid Row?

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  How Do You Make Hoshigaki?

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  How Does Psoriasis Work?

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  Could 'Y'all' Fill a Gap in Modern English?

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  BrainStuff Classics: How Do Paleoartists Create Dinosaur Drawings?

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  BrainStuff Classics: Why Is the Winchester House Built So Strangely?

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  Is the 'Number of the Beast' an Ancient Riddle?

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  Could Piranhas Really Eat a Cow in Under a Minute?