The fire-fighting dog team to save koalas from fires in Australia thanks to very special training.
Is called Bear and it is a dog that looking for koalas for work, taken regularly by Detection Dogs for Conservation. His specialty, for which he was trained, is smelling sick, injured, orphaned koalas in the middle of nature. Just like yours do colleagues to four paws, dogs that like him save many koalas from fires in Australia.
That's why these days they have had a lot to do on the east coast of Australia where fires are continuing to destroy the natural habitat of these animals, claiming numerous victims. In fact, it is believed that hundreds of them died in this area alone. A woman named Tina braved the flames to rescue a male specimen but if for her, this act of heroism was a coincidence, for Bear and colleagues it is normal.
The dog team actually helps Queensland Fire and Emergency Services a find, and retrieve, koalas remained injured negli fire and therefore need help. A job, theirs, which is not at all simple because they must be able to focus attention only on the objective, without being distracted. Which Bear can do very well.
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Posted by Detection Dogs for Conservation on Thursday, November 14, 2019
He learned this over time, after being taken to Detection Dogs for Conservation by his former owners, who could no longer care for him. And within minutes of testing, the team realized he was “The One“. Energetic, obsessive, disinterested in people, not very affectionate, brilliant, concentrated, in short, unsuitable for a family life but perfect as a survey dog.
Each dog on the team, as CNN reports, has its own specialty: there are those who are trained to smell and follow the trail of excrement, and those like Bear who smell the smell of furs.
Bear also has a particularity compared to the others, he is in fact trained for find live koalas, so your help is really invaluable during natural disasters. Also because he can smell them even when they hide in the top of the trees. Congratulations to this team!
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