A scientist from Rostov-on-Don has invented a device that makes a clone from a tortoise.

The scientist Alexei Burikov placed small camera to tortoise`s shell and defined motion path. Now the slowest animal in the world is going to serve in military intelligence and help ecologists, ITV informs.

Scientists are running serious experiments with tortoises, they taught them to take human`s dictations. A tortoise can describe path under device control. Its movement is being corrected by a man. There is a small camera on top of its shell. A scientist can see what is going on round an object on a monitor.

"That is not training", - scientists say. They say tortoises become bio-objects. Vibration makes tortoises to move in some direction or to stop for some period.

Rostov biologists found out that tortoises were not as primitive as it seemed. A tortoise is enduring, can live one month without food, it is covered with shell. These animals can be used in military intelligence with such features and even carry explosives.
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