Slate Articles (slate) wrote,
@ 2015-06-06 12:31:00

Ratted Out

http://www.slate.com/articles/video/video/2015/06/rats_landmines_trained_rodents_seek_out_bombs_in_africa_video.html

African farmers, usually plagued by pests like rats, are seeing their lives and livelihoods reclaimed with help from the rodents. A Belgian NGO working in the southern highlands of Tanzania have been training and using giant pouched rats to sniff out and alert their handlers to the presence of landmines.

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