Rats don’t always have the best reputations, but one named Ronin with a super sense of smell is working to change that. Ronin and his landmine-sniffing rat pack are making a name for rodents ...

Rats are being used to sniff out any sort of animal trafficking, by having them check for particular scents through the vents in shipping containers. (Submitted by APOPO)Bad reputation.

A mine-sniffing African giant pouched rat named Ronin has been acknowledged by the Guinness World Records. ... Rat that detected dozens of landmines gets award for animal bravery 00:49.

Rats don’t always have the best reputations, but one named Ronin with a super sense of smell is working to change that.. Ronin and his landmine-sniffing rat pack are making a name for rodents ...

The rats are trained to sniff out chemicals that are found in landmines and other weapons abandoned on battlefields. Because of their small size, the rats are not heavy enough to detonate the mines.

Rats, the scientists say, are ideal sniffer animals and have already been trained to identify the aroma of landmines and tuberculosis. They are cheap, easy to train, can work with a range of ...

But for Ronin the rat, sniffing out land mines is a breeze. He recently set a new world record for the “most land mines detected by a rat”—and he’s just getting started.

Super-Sniffing Rat Sets a New World Record for Discovering Deadly Land Mines—and He’s Just Getting Started Ronin, a 5-year-old African giant pouched rat, has found 109 land mines and 15 other ...

Giant African rats may soon be the key to fighting illegal wildlife trafficking.. New research from nonprofit APOPO, published Oct. 29, shows that African giant pouched rats can be trained to ...

Ronin, a giant African pouched rat, is the first rodent to uncover more than 100 mines in Cambodia. ... Ronin the rat sets new landmine-sniffing record. 4 April 2025. Share Save. Tiffany Wertheimer.

Without being able to talk to each other, rats use sniffing as one way to answer key questions about strangers. Is that a female? Can I mate with her? Is this one sick? What did he eat? — All of ...