Sherlock the vulture - man's new best friend?

WALSRODE, Germany -- With a face like a turkey, a blood-red head, big beady eyes and large curved beak, Sherlock the vulture is no oil painting.

But police in Germany are hoping the bird could be the latest, low-tech weapon in their armory: They want to harness Sherlock's incredible sense of smell to locate the dead bodies that sniffer dogs can't reach.

They want to attach global positioning system tracking devices to Sherlock and get him to find the corpses of people who have disappeared in remote areas.