Hero rats’ in Africa’s Tanzania are playing an unusual but crucial role as they help to detect landmines and identify ...

The nonprofit APOPO has worked in Morogoro, Tanzania, for more than two decades to train African giant pouched rats for ...

The nonprofit APOPO has worked in Morogoro, Tanzania, for more than two decades to train African giant pouched rats for ...

The nonprofit APOPO has worked in Morogoro, Tanzania, for more than two decades to train African giant pouched rats for ...

A man lies unmoving, slumped in the rubble of a simulated earthquake, as an unlikely rescuer approaches: a rat with a backpack. Whiskers waving, the rat breezes past garbage, toppled furniture and ...

For more than two decades, the nonprofit APOPO has worked in Tanzania to train African giant pouched rats for lifesaving ...

For more than two decades, the non-profit APOPO has worked in Tanzania to train African giant pouched rats for lifesaving ...

With a superpower sense of smell, they can be taught to sniff out landmines, diseases, and even humans buried under rubble.

For more than two decades, the nonprofit APOPO has worked in Tanzania to train African giant pouched rats for lifesaving ...

This is the story of a stowaway rat, who hopped on a transatlantic flight, caused mass panic, had its travel plans rudely interrupted by a one-way trip to a scientific facility, and is now teaching ...

In Tanzania, African giant pouched rats are being trained to sniff out landmines, diseases and even humans buried under ...