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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

APOPO has a program where it teaches African giant pouched rats to sniff out the chemicals in abandoned mines and other weapons left behind in periods of war, according to Guinness World Records.

A trained rat wearing a special vest to alert handlers when they detect a target. Giant African rats are being trained to sniff out illegal goods like elephant tusks, rhino horns, and pangolin scales.

See Inside a Hero Rat Academy, Where Rodents Learn to Sniff Out Undetonated Landmines. Get a behind-the-scenes look at how APOPO trains African giant pouched rats to save lives. By.

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 ...