spies

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How pigeons, cats, whales, and even the robot catfish have acted as spies through the ages.

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Spies’ deaths rarely make the news because of their secrecy. But when a beluga whale suspected of spying for Moscow was found dead in Norwegian waters in September, the animal quickly became a minor celebrity. An official necropsy of Hvaldimir (a play on the Norwegian word for whale Hvar and the Russian president’s first name) was…