Russian scientists learnt turtles to serve in reconnaissance and help ecologists. They placed video cameras at their shell and invented method to assign the trajectory of animal movement.
For Rostov professor Burikov turtles are not domestic pets but objects of biological investigation. Special devices turn turtle into biological robot. Vibration forces animal to move to either side or to stop for certain period of time.
Rostov biologists learnt to manipulate with this slow creatures for a long time before they found out: turtles are not primitive as they seem. Land turtle is sturdy; it can survive for a month without food and is protected by shell. With such qualities these animals can be useful in reconnaissance and even carry explosives