APOPO is a global non-profit organization that trains rats to save lives. The group uses African giant pouched rats to sniff ...

African giant pouched rats like Carolina prevented nearly 400,000 new cases of a deadly disease. It's possible because of ...

Enter the African giant pouched rat (Cricetomys ansorgei)—a species with an extraordinary sense of smell, an ability to work in confined spaces, and a low-cost maintenance profile.Trained at the ...

has worked for years with African giant pouched rats. Their rodents learn to sniff out mines on old battlefields in Angola, Mozambique and Cambodia, or to detect tuberculosis in phlegm samples ...

The giant rat shown here isn't the biggest of the extinct ... It is also known as the house, roof or ship rat and is found throughout Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas.

Often dismissed as pests, rats have long been misunderstood. But the African giant pouched rat (Cricetomys ansorgei), the world’s longest, is challenging that perception. With its intelligence ...

Researchers trained African giant pouched rats to detect illegally trafficked wildlife species and remember targets for several months. Image APOPO Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

One such initiative is of APOPO, a non-profit organisation, headquartered in Tanzania and working in 11 countries, that trains African giant pouched rats (nicknamed HeroRATS), to detect TB in ...

Less well-known, but no less impressive are rats, with the African giant pouched rat being the star of the show. Recently a student at the Dutch Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e ...