Taliban Can’t Train Monkeys To Shoot US Soldiers, Say Scientists
Two weeks ago, the Chinese People’s Daily reported that the Talibans are training monkeys to shoot at U.S soldiers. They are being armed with weapons and being taught to shoot at anyone wearing the uniform of U.S military.
It can be advantageous to Taliban in two ways. First one being, that the U.S troops won’t be able to operate confidently in forests. Where there will always be a danger of an attack by the monkeys. And the second being that the people around the globe working on animal rights would protest against this killing of monkeys so violently, that the U.S troops would have no choice but to leave for home.
According to People’s Daily, U.S had itself used this monkey experiment back in 1960s, when they armed the monkeys and dispatched them into forests to attack the Vietnamese soldiers.
“Today, the Taliban forces have given the American troops some of their own medicine.”
With all this being discussed by the bloggers and media, LiveScience asked a real scientist about it.
“They can be trained to do things like turn off lights and open faucets and so on, but eventually that breaks down,” psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of California, William Mason, said
“If we’re talking about animals going out into the field or a fortress with an AK-47 or whatever, it seems very, very implausible.”
“To give a monkey a complex device like a rifle and say ‘We’re going to train it to become a soldier’ is purely fantastical.”
Below is the Taiwan Animated News version.
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