From the March 8, 2014, Listverse "10 Totally Bizarre Plans to Win Wars" by Marc V.
ANTI-SUBMARINE SEAGULLS
During World War I, the British researched ways to battle the growing U-boat menace.
One plan was to send people out in rafts to smash periscopes with a hammer. Another suggested training seagulls to sit on periscopes and defecate.
A man by the name of Thomas Mills designed and patented a diving submarine with food on the periscope to train gulls to approach it, perch, eat and hopefully leave a calling card to blind the German crew as to surface going-ons.
Oh Well. Gulls Do That Anyway. --Cootergull
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