Rats and Cats, Trained to Detect Landmines

Playing cat and mouse can have a different outcome from what we see in some cartoons. Tom and Jerry can be even very good friends when solving some very special tasks. In the past years, a special Colombian police unit has been training rats and cats put in the same cages as part of a projec... [ read more >> ]

A gambian giant pouch rat (Cricetomys Gambianus) receives the scent of a suspected anti-personnel mine in a minefield near the town of Vilancoulos, 450 kilometres north-east of the capital Maputo in southern Mozambique

Image comment: A gambian giant pouch rat (Cricetomys Gambianus) receives the scent of a suspected anti-personnel mine in a minefield near the town of Vilancoulos, 450 kilometres north-east of the capital Maputo in southern Mozambique
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A gambian giant pouch rat (Cricetomys Gambianus) receives the scent of a suspected anti-personnel mine in a minefield near the town of Vilancoulos, 450 kilometres north-east of the capital Maputo in southern Mozambique