Spies Unlike Us

There was Ivan Pavlov and his dogs, proving that a stimulus could evoke a trained response. There was B.F. Skinner, mice, pigeons, and the operant-conditioning chamber, or Skinner box (and, famously, the "baby tender," which some misunderstood to be a conditioning box for children). And then there's Bob Bailey, the first director of training for the Navy's 1960s program teaching dolphins to detect submarines. He's also trained ravens to deposit eavesdropping equipment in certain places and pigeons to signal the location of enemy troops. "We never found an animal we could not train," he says. "Never": http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-cias-most-highly-trained-spies-werent-even-human-20149/?no-ist
Pity the poor creature who's caught and accused of spying. Herewith, a collection of 10 (slideshow): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/15/spy-animal-espionage_n_804454.html