Ronin, a specially trained rat deployed to Cambodia, has helped locate more than 100 anti-personnel landmines littered around ...

APOPO trains the animals to detect the scent of the mine's explosives and ignore the smell of scrap metal, saving significant time when the rats are out in the field clearing areas. Hero Rats ...

Want to virtually "adopt" Ronin? Applications are being solicited for him and other "hero" rats here. More From Newser ・Subway Tunnel Collapse Traps 2 Workers ・Birmingham's Trash Woes Are ...

Hero Rats Project Training Rodents to Wear Tiny Backpacks and Help with Earthquake Rescues The top 10 list over the past several years has remained mostly stable, with some cities moving up or ...

At the end of the tour, visitors can hold and pose for photos with the animals, dubbed Hero Rats. After the rodent diversion, it was back to the ancient temples. On our second full day in Cambodia ...

earning them the nickname “hero-rats.” Efforts are underway to expand the use of their keen sense of smell to finding people trapped in collapsed buildings, detecting diseases in laboratory ...

Magawa was trained by Tanzania-based charity Apopo, “which has been raising the animals - known as Hero Rats - to detect landmines and tuberculosis since the 1990s”, the BBC reports.

You might think that ‘hero rats’ are the lead characters of a new Pixar movie, but these happen to be actual African Giant Pouched Rats, trained by the organization APOPO. Their prolific ...

In laboratories in Tanzania and Nairobi, rats have been trained to sniff out tuberculosis. Already known for finding land mines, the rodents could now transform the way the disease is detected.

A “hero rat” set a Guinness World Record after detecting more landmines than any other rat. The African giant rat named Ronan ...

At 400 acres, Angkor Wat (“temple city” or “temple that is a city” in Khmer, the language of Cambodia) is considered the largest religious structure in the world. Yet despite its size, it ...