Elephants and Bees Elephants are one of the biggest wonders on our planet. Weighing between 3-to-4-ton Asian elephants eat over 150 kg of vegetation a day. As wildlife habitats are continuously shrinking and cultivated lands are pushing closer to the borders of protected areas, elephants enter crop fields in the search of food. The damage […]
Category: Past projects
Pigs in an MRI
Saturday nights training pigs in an MRI scanner MRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) is a noninvasive imaging technology commonly used in research to observe the brain’s reaction to stimuli. The MRI scanner is very noisy and requires the subject to remain perfectly still, as every slight movement will distort the image. Because of this, traditional […]
Working dogs and world championships
From working dogs and world championships to training animals for research purposes I served two years at the Israeli Police in the dog handler unit. My main goal was to raise and train young puppies to serve as scent detection and protection dogs. Puppies of good working dogs are like rough diamonds. The goal […]