In Cambodia alone, these explosives have caused more than 65,000 deaths since 1979. In other words, Ronin and other rats like ...

Ronin, who is 5 years old and was born in Tanzania, is much larger than your average pet rat. He is more than 2 feet long – about the length of a cat – and weighs 2.6 pounds, according to APOPO.

One African giant pouched rat in Cambodia is making communities safer by sniffing out dangerous explosives—and he just set a record for his species. According to Smithsonian, the 5-year-old rat named ...