The African giant pouched rat has been the most successful rodent trained and overseen by a Belgian nonprofit, APOPO, to find land mines and alert his human handlers so the explosives can be ...

Indeed, the SOE files show that the Germans actually organised searches for these rodent explosives. The source of the dead rats was a London supplier, who was under the mistaken belief that it ...

These rats easily trained can sniff out the chemical compounds of TNT (explosive) found in landmines and other explosive remnants of war. They ignore scrap metal making them much faster at ...