An African giant pouched rat is being honored in the record books after detecting more than 100 landmines and other ...

Ronin, a 5-year-old African giant pouched rat, has found 109 land mines and 15 other unexploded ordnances in Cambodia ...

An African giant pouched rat is receiving accolades for his lifesaving work on the other side of the globe—and that work has just earned him a world record. Guinness is now celebrating Ronin—a ...

Across the world, there are estimated to be over 110 million landmines still buried in more than 60 countries. According to ...

Ronin and his landmine-sniffing rat pack are making a name for rodents everywhere by saving innocent civilians from hidden explosives. The African giant pouched rat recently set a new world record ...

With their enormous cheek pouches and keen sense of smell, the giant pouched rat is making waves—not just in living rooms, but also on minefields and in hospitals. As a pet, it presents a challenge ...

A landmine-detecting rat in Cambodia has set a new world record to become the first rodent to uncover more than 100 mines and ...

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

The giant pouched rat has been named by the Belgian charity as its most successful Mine Detection Rat (MDR) for uncovering 109 landmines and 15 items of unexploded ordnance since 2021, Apopo said ...

He’s a working sniff. A busy and highly trained rat has set a world record after using his nose to find 109 landmines. Ronin, an African giant pouched rat, has been hunting landmines in Cambodia since ...

An African giant pouched rat is being honored in the record books after detecting more than 100 landmines and other undetonated explosives in Cambodia, Belgian non-profit APOPO announced Friday.