A bomb-detecting rat has smashed a world record by sniffing out more than 100 landmines in Cambodia. Since his deployment in 2021, Ronin, a giant African pouched rat, has sniffed out 109 landmines ...

A rat named Ronin has set a new Guinness World Record by detecting 109 land mines in Cambodia over the last four years.

Christophe Cox, APOPO's CEO and co-founder, said the organization began exploring new explosive-detection ... bomb-sniffing career. APOPO uses positive reinforcement methods that give the rats ...

Five-year-old Ronin has helped Cambodians reclaim land that was once avoided for fear of landmines A landmine-detecting rat in Cambodia has set a new world record to become the first rodent to ...

Ronin’s feat — which eclipsed the record set by fellow bomb-sniffing rodent ... hamster had been trained to detect explosives, Weetjens — who had raised pet rats as a kid and was impressed ...

“They were also convinced that it’s highly effective,” Ringquist said, adding that the rats could be effective for humanitarian missions, border control or in explosive ordnance detection as the U.S.

Magawa was trained by Tanzania-based charity Apopo, “which has been raising the animals - known as Hero Rats - to detect landmines and tuberculosis since the 1990s”, the BBC reports.

While these rodents are new to the world of public service, bomb-detecting rats have been successfully used for over a decade. Last year, Malaga, a mine-detecting rat who was awarded an animal ...

Some remain, and could still explode. A representative from Mines Advisory Group is searching for a bomb with a metal detection device. (Mines Advisory Group/Bart Verweij) The U.S. dropped millions of ...

“They were also convinced that it’s highly effective,” Ringquist said, adding that the rats could be effective for humanitarian missions, border control or in explosive ordnance detection as the U.S.