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 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 ...

Rat that detected dozens of landmines gets award for animal bravery 00:49. An African giant pouched rat is being honored in the record books after detecting more than 100 landmines and other ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In short: Researchers trained 11 rats to sniff out elephant tusk and rhino horn, even when smugglers used common tricks such as using coffee grinds and washing powder to conceal their scents.