Germany Trains Dogs to Sniff for Unexpected Wildlife at Rural Construction Sites

• Sommana Yan
• 1 November 2021
• Construction Focus
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Away from sniffing for mines, dogs are being trained to sniff for wildlife at massive construction sites as part of an acceleration of construction projects.

The railroad company – Deutsche Bahn (DB) in Germany started a project on sniffing dogs to search for wildlife and construction site establishments.

The training program conducted to the puppies or sniffer dogs is done in order to detect the monitored wildlife as well as to organise massive construction establishments in order to expedite research programs, the Nature World News reported on 29 October.

“As we are all aware modern people have always been the ones in charge of having to find living creatures that really need to be relocated to a secure location or to be saved all the while the building process is underway,” the company said.

The training program should have been completed by the end of this year.

“The dogs are now seen as a good aid to the construction companies and are being used in major infrastructure projects for the first time in the country, Germany,” DB’s director of infrastructure planning Jens Bergmann, stated.

“Pups, with their own keen olfactory receptors, are believed by experts as well as researchers to somehow locate critically endangered species at whatever moment of the year and in nearly every single climate condition,” he added.

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