ALEXIS C. MADRIGALMAR 12
2013, 10:23 AM ET
Update! Sad
news, friends. It turns out that one piece of the Ukrainian dolphin story is,
in fact, a hoax. No dolphins from the Ukrainian army's complement have actually
escaped, according
to this newspaper report. The hoax began with this faked
report from the museum director, which led to a story by RIA Novosti. The
strangest thing about this is how plausible the whole thing actually is. Gregg
studies dolphins for a living and did not seem skeptical. That's because the US
and Ukrainian military do indeed have dolphins, which they've been,according to
previous reports, training for combat. A reader wrote in to tell me that
when he was a young sailor in Turkey , this
beluga whalewas rumored to have escaped from a military installation in Crimea . That is to say, the oddest part of this story --
that dolphins have regularly been used in the military -- is unchanged. But the
specifics turn out to be a hoax. Our apologies for the mistake. In recompense,
allow me to give you this video about the history of militarized dolphins.
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