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>One Arizona otter is now being trained to sniff out evidence and victims in underwater settings.

>"If (a body) gets into a canal or river and an alligator gets to them before we do, the gator will take the remains and stuff it somewhere, and it makes it very difficult to find. The dogs get us into the area but they can't get us from the boat to the bottom," Mike Hadsell, a veteran search and rescue diver and president of Peace River Search and Rescue said. "The otters get us from the boat to the bottom to show us exactly where the remains are located."

>Otters are believed to be the only mammals that can smell underwater.

>Not only is it possible, it's working.

>"So, he sniffed out the scent and went down to it, threw a marker and the diver went in and there it was," Hadsell said.

>Jeff Beals, the aquarium coordinator at the Wildlife World Zoo in the West Valley, Splash's original home, said he knows otters have the skills for the job.

>"Not only can they smell items underwater, they can also pick up on cues, on trails, smell trails," Beals said.

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/arizona-otter-training-sniff-out-victims-evidence-underwater-settings/75-71c10b5e-51f2-4a98-89f4-bb3ea7245318

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