Under the heading "Weekend Fiction", "Military Review" is a story about Brazil's military police. more precisely, of those units of the Brazilian Military Police, which patrol in the states, through the individual from which the Amazon River flows. we are talking, for example, Stat of Amazonas and Para, most of which is occupied by the Amazon jungle.
Noteworthy patrols in these areas the Brazilian, that the military police is often necessary to use unconventional (modern military) means of transport. The thing is, that the area is in the states, it passable even recognized by the opportunities SUVs tend to zero. We have to find a way out of the situation with the help of animals.
So, in the state of Amazonas patrol for decades by using buffalo. With these animals hardy, which have long been used Brazilian farmers, military police can move there, where are powerless not only SUVs, but horses. It is a question including of wetlands along the shores of the deepest rivers of the world.
simple device is used to control buffalo, which for several hundred years and is used in the farm business - it is a rope "structure", portion of which is inserted through the nostril of the animal. This construct Brazilian military borrowed from the peasants. The relative ease during movement provides a saddle on the broad back of a buffalo.
As they say themselves military police in Brazil, “rohatoe” patrolling is not only because of the "terrain", but also due to safety from predators, which are rich expanses of the Amazon. For “military” Buffalo organized a special fortified food.
It uses water buffalo as a military police vehicles in Brazil for about 30 years and is not going to give up on these animals in their daily service. The starting point is patrolling the military unit, One of the purposes of – the suppression of drug trafficking.
