Amazing: Watch an Elephant Sniff for Bombs | National Geographic

we’ve just want to know exactly how good
an elephant’s a sense of smell is and
see if we can use them to do something
else down the line just a piece of
filter paper with TNT on it a small
amount and and then other sensor we will
put in petrol or diesel and you know
mangoes and other things coffee and just
the elephant has to ignore all the other
scent and just only indicate to us when
he smells
tea
attaboy way well that go
it’s very very important that you know
people understand that we’re not there
to take elephant and put them into a
learn minefield the idea is to bring the
landline field to the elephants so if we
can take air samples or something from
there then we can use it we’re doing
some research on vocal vocalization and
communication and which one understand
how they can communicate their distances
that they claim to communicate and we
want to find out if we can use some of
the communications to try and help keep
elephants out of areas with humans and
another thing with the scenting ability
is to see if if males and females can
identify their kin from their scent and
therefore not mate with each other and
see if that has an implication in all
these islands of elephant across Africa
you know how do they find water
underground how do they find electric
cables underground how are they able to
push over electric fences you know that
sort of stuff there’s a hell of a lot to
learn from them even in their sensing
ability can we can we get an elephant to
possibly find a disease or do something
it’s only the tip