Mind Set Daily

Topic covered on today's episode of Mind Set Daily "Animal Spies Among Us" Today we have unmanned vehicles as small as a hummingbird that can search and spy in war situations, and drones. But during the cold war (1960’s) we did not have technology like that, we had something almost as good. At the I.Q. Zoo at Hot Springs, Arkansas, tourists could watch all kinds of animals perform amazing feats, such as chickens playing baseball, parrots riding bicycles and a variety of other animals performing. What people did not know was that the same people who taught these animals, also worked for the CIA. It is true that animals have been used in military and intelligence since ancient Greece, but not like the cold war of the 60’s. Researchers note that animal intelligence work of this sort today has been rendered largely nonessential by technology. Today, all you have to do is illuminate someone with an infrared laser and pick up the scatter back from that, and you can listen to their conversation without any troub