Cathy Huynh - Whales trained by Russia's military may be harassing fishermen from NATO ally Norway

Summary: Norwegian fishermen and scientists say that a white whale tied with an unusual harness that harassed boats in the Artic may have been trained by Russia's army. Russia has acknowledged training sea mammals for operations in the Artic where it has a military base not far from key member of NATO, Norway. "We know that in Russia they have had domestic whales in captivity and also that some of these have apparently been released," Audun Rikardsen, a professor of marine biology at the Arctic University of Norway, told NRK according to The Guardian. The Cold War-era Soviet Union had a program to train dolphins to help detect underwater weapons and alert their trainers. That program lasted until the 1990's.

Source: Whales trained by Russia's military may be harassing fishermen from NATO ally Norway

Analysis: This article was posted without an author listed on April 29, 2019. This article is trustworthy, because it's from a major news website. I can connect this to the arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. This article is meant to have a negative influence on the audience for the perhaps poor treatment of these animals. This article was written, because this whale was disturbing ships irritably. This article is important, because Russia could still be bitter about the Cold War.