(BBC) David Chazan - In Israel, a new weapon is being tested to try to foil bomb attacks - pigs which sniff out explosives. Geva Zion, a former Israeli army dog trainer, believes it may be easier to train pigs than sniffer dogs. "The pigs work and understand very quickly, maybe half of the time of the dogs....Pigs like to dig." Because of religious taboos, Zion knows it is going to be a challenge convincing Israelis to employ sniffer pigs. "In Israel we say if you don't eat the pigs there's no problem." Zion says he also hopes to market the pigs' services to countries plagued by leftover mines in Africa and the Balkans.
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