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Humans have enlisted animals to help fight their battles since the dawn 
of war, and today’s militaries use an even wider range of creatures for 
everything from bomb sniffing to coastline patrolling. Here we count 
down some of the creatures that have become unwitting recruits in both 
ancient and modern warfare.</div>
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<b>1. Bat Bombs</b></div>
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These nocturnal flying mammals became part of a bizarre animal 
experiment during World War II. A dental surgeon upset by the Japanese 
attack on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor proposed attaching tiny 
incendiary bombs to bats. The creatures were meant to set thousands of 
small blazes across Japan’s cities as they flew to roost beneath 
building roofs. But the idea floundered after receiving the green light 
from President Roosevelt. Many uncooperative bats simply dropped like 
rocks or flew away, despite the U.S. Army using as many as 6,000 of the 
mammals in their experiments. The U.S. Navy spent $2 million after 
taking over the effort, before finally giving up. Still, the bat bombs 
did manage to set fire to a simulated Japanese village, a U.S. Army 
hangar and a general’s car. Nowadays, Pentagon scientists study how bat 
flight mechanics could inspire future aircraft designs and spy robots.</div>
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<b>2. Camel Cavalry</b></div>
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Camels only provide a few modern militaries with patrol mounts, but 
camel cavalry once flourished in certain regions of the world. Camels 
found much use in the arid or desert regions of North Africa and the 
Middle East during ancient times, given their ability to survive harsh 
and often waterless conditions. The smell of camels reportedly 
frightened enemy horse cavalry, even if the camels did not provide as 
much of a shock to enemy troops during charges. The Parthian and 
Sassanid Persians sometimes armored their camels as heavy cataphract 
cavalry (picture camels equipped with armor, artillery and carrying 
cavalrymen), and Arab warriors often rode camels during raids against 
other tribes or during the Muslim conquests of North Africa and the 
Middle East. Camels fared less well outside their natural ranges, where 
horses became the preferred battle mount. The combat role of camels 
rapidly declined with the development of guns throughout the 1700s and 
1800s, but they still saw some action with British general Lawrence of 
Arabia and Arab forces during World War I.</div>
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<b>3. Angry Bees</b></div>
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Stinger-equipped bees could become effective weapons when provoked. The 
ancient Greeks, Romans and other civilizations occasionally used the 
insects as tiny weapons of war to deter enemy troops. Besiegers would 
sometimes catapult beehives over the walls, and Greek defenders of 
Themiscyra supposedly returned the favor by barraging Roman attackers 
with hives. The Heptakometes of the Trebizond region in Turkey even 
tricked Roman soldiers under the command of Pompey with a tribute of 
toxic honey, which led to the defeat of the subsequently vomiting, 
intoxicated Romans. A more direct use of angry bees continued during 
castle sieges of the Middle Ages, as well as during World War I and the 
Vietnam War. These days, U.S. scientists have found more peaceful uses 
for bees by training the insects to detect land mines.</div>
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<b>4. Sea Lion Patrol</b></div>
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California sea lions have gained odd fame in the service of the U.S. 
Navy’s marine mammal program, alongside dolphins and a beluga whale or 
two. The marine mammals have excellent low-light vision and underwater 
hearing, can swim 25 mph (40 km/h), and do repeated dives of up to 1,000
 feet (300 m). The U.S. Navy has accordingly trained sea lions as 
minesweepers that can locate and mark mines. The animals can even attach
 a special leg cuff to human divers or saboteurs, which allows sailors 
to haul the suspects to the surface. A special sea lion harness also 
carries cameras that provide live underwater video. Just one sea lion, 
two human handlers, and a rubber boat can replace a full-sized naval 
vessel, its crew and a group of human divers in searching for objects on
 the ocean floor.</div>
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<b>5. Messenger Pigeons</b></div>
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Carrier pigeons carried messages for conquerors and generals throughout 
much of human history, based on their homing ability and navigational 
skills that enable them to return home across hundreds of miles. But the
 pigeons gained much of the military fame during World War I, where 
Allied forces used as many as 200,000 of them. One pigeon named Cher Ami
 even earned the French “Croix de Guerre” for delivering 12 messages 
between forts in the Verdun, France region. He made his last message 
delivery despite suffering serious bullet injuries, and is credited with
 saving the “Lost Battalion” of the U.S. 77th Infantry Division, which 
had become cut off by German forces. Another group of 32 pigeons earned 
the British Dickin medal for animal valor during the D-Day invasion of 
World War II, when Allied soldiers kept radio silence and relied upon 
the pigeons to relay messages. The birds have since retired from 
military service because of advances in communications technology.</div>
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<b>6. Navy Dolphins</b></div>
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Bottlenose dolphins have served alongside sea lions in helping the U.S. 
Navy patrol the seas since the 1960s. The brethren of Flipper use their 
sophisticated biological sonar to search for mines based on the concept 
of echolocation. A dolphin will send out a series of clicks that bounce 
off objects and return to the dolphin. That allows the marine mammal to 
get a mental image of the object, and it can then report to its human 
handler using certain yes or no responses. The handler can also follow 
up on a yes response by sending the dolphin to mark the object’s 
location with a weighted buoy line. Those mine-marking abilities came in
 handy during both the Persian Gulf War and the Iraq War, with Navy 
dolphins helping to clear the port of Umm Qasr in southern Iraq during 
the latter. Dolphins can also tag enemy swimmers, but the U.S. Navy 
denies rumors about training dolphins to use weapons against humans.</div>
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<b>7. War Elephants</b></div>
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The largest living land mammals on Earth left their mark in warfare as 
creatures capable of devastating packed formations of enemy troops. 
Elephants could trample, pierce soldiers with their tusks and even throw
 hapless humans with their trunks. They sometimes wore armor or carried 
archers and javelin throwers. Ancient kingdoms of India may have been 
first to tame elephants as living tanks, but the practice soon spread to
 the Persians in the Middle East. Alexander the Great encountered enemy 
elephants during his conquests of the ancient world, and eventually the 
Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans made use of war elephants at certain 
times. Horses feared the sight and smell of elephants, and human 
soldiers also had to deal with the psychological terror of facing down 
the huge animals. Still, elephants could go mad with fear or pain after 
taking too much punishment, and the advent of cannons on the battlefield
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<b>8. Military Mules</b></div>
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Mules have played an unsung but crucial role throughout the history of 
warfare by carrying or pulling along much of the food, weapons and other
 supplies needed by armies. Born from a male donkey and a female horse, 
they became preferred over horses for carrying loads because of their 
greater endurance. They also displayed more intelligence and 
unwillingness to push to the point of injury, which led to the 
stereotype of being stubborn. Still, the ancient Roman legions marched 
with about one mule for every 10 Roman legionaries. Napoleon Bonaparte 
himself rode a mule across the Alps, in addition to using the animals in
 his baggage trains. The U.S. Army alone used about 571,000 horses and 
mules in Europe during World War I, and lost about 68,000 killed in 
action. Mules have continued to find use even today, as U.S. Special 
Forces, marines and soldiers rely upon the animals to keep supply lines 
open for remote outposts in the mountains of Afghanistan.</div>
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<b>9. Dogs of War</b></div>
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Most people may look upon man’s best friend as a cuddly creature, but 
humans have let slip the dogs of war for thousands of years. Large 
breeds served as war dogs on the battlefield and as defensive sentries 
for everyone from the Egyptians to Native Americans. The Romans equipped
 some of their dogs with spiked collars and armor, and the Spanish 
conquistadors also used armored attack dogs during their invasion of 
South America in the 1500s. Many European factions and nations used war 
dogs in ancient conflicts and throughout the Middle Ages, but more 
modern warfare reduced the battlefield role to that of messengers, 
trackers, scouts and sentries. The U.S. military and others have more 
recently trained dogs as bomb-sniffing detectors to work in Iraq and 
Afghanistan, where the four-footed companions get their own bulletproof 
vests.</div>
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<b>10. Horses</b></div>
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Perhaps no other animal has played so great a role in the history of 
warfare as the horse. Humans domesticated horses as early as 5,500 years
 ago in modern-day Kazakhstan, and the spread of horses across Eurasia 
soon gave rise to their use in large-scale warfare. The ancient 
Egyptians and the Chinese used horse-pulled chariots as stable platforms
 to fight from, before the invention of an effective saddle and stirrup 
gave mounted warriors a decisive edge. Armored knights on horseback 
could deliver devastating charges against all but the most steadfast 
foot-soldier formations. The stability provided by the 
saddle-and-stirrup combo allowed the Mongols to fight and shoot arrows 
effectively from horseback, and gave them the mobility to conquer much 
of the known world. A thunderous appearance of horses on battlefields 
often signaled the beginning of the end for civilizations that lacked 
similar warrior mounts. Major combat use of horses did not waver until 
the modern era of warfare, when tanks and machine guns entered the fray.</div>
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Top 10 War Animals of All Time

Humans have enlisted animals to help fight their battles since the dawn of war, and today’s militaries use an even wider range of creatu...