But metal detectors pick up every little scrap of metal that people then have to investigate, and dogs — while good at detecting explosives when trained well — are limited to working with just ...

APOPO is a global nonprofit organization that trains African giant pouched rats to protect people. The animals are taught to sniff out landmines ... the undetonated mines they find.

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The adorable Gambian pouched rats outperform both metal detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs when it comes to finding unexploded devices. They can also work a lot faster - covering more miles of land ...

Magawa, a giant African pouched rat originally from Tanzania, helped clear mines from about 225,000sq m of land -- the equivalent of 42 football pitches -- over the course of his career.

Magawa, the recently retired landmine detection rat, eats corn at the APOPO Visitor Center in Siem Reap, Cambodia, June 10, 2021. [Reuters] Cambodia's landmine-sniffing rat Magawa, who found more ...

has worked for years with African giant pouched rats. Their rodents learn to sniff out mines on old battlefields in Angola, Mozambique and Cambodia, or to detect tuberculosis in phlegm samples ...

PHNOM PENH, June 5 (AFP): A giant African pouched rat called Magawa who spent ... which says the rodent helped clear mines from 225,000 square metres of land in his five-year career, the ...