African giant pouched rats like Carolina prevented nearly 400,000 new cases of a deadly disease. It's possible because of ...

APOPO is a global non-profit organization that trains rats to save lives. The group uses African giant pouched rats to sniff ...

African giant pouched rats, which have previously been trained ... Around $20 billion in illegal animal parts is sold every year, according to stats from Interpol, The Guardian revealed.

These giant rats are bred in captivity ... unwanted odours and ensure the desired scent is strongly imprinted on the animal. “We need to continue our training to see if our rats are still ...

Conservationists in Tanzania are training the rodents to smell trafficked animal parts and illegal ... has worked for years with African giant pouched rats. Their rodents learn to sniff out ...

Researchers trained African giant pouched rats to detect illegally trafficked wildlife species and remember targets for several months. Image APOPO Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

Findings indicate that non-human animals can categorize complex olfactory stimuli without linguistic or human-specific cognitive abilities. In the study, "Rats Can Distinguish (and Generalize ...

By Simon J. Levien The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a suggestion to help curb the growing population of an invasive species that bears a resemblance to a very large rat: Eat them.