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

A landmine-detecting rat in Cambodia has set a new world record to become the first rodent to uncover more than 100 mines and other deadly war remnants. Ronin, an African giant pouched rat, has ...

One African giant pouched rat in Cambodia is making communities safer by sniffing out dangerous explosives—and he just set a record for his species. According to Smithsonian, the 5-year-old rat named ...

Five-year-old Ronin has been named the most successful mine-detection rat in the organization’s history, it said. Handler Phanny plays with Ronin, a land-mine-hunting rat, in Cambodia’s Preah Vihear ...

Elizabeth Bowen Visiting Cambodia some years ago, I came upon a band of musicians busking at the side of the road. The dozen ...

“These rats have an incredible sense of smell,” Pendo Msegu, animal welfare officer at APOPO, said in an interview with Anadolu. “We’ve taught them to detect land mines, and they do it wit ...

The giant pouched rat has been named by the Belgian charity as its most successful Mine Detection Rat (MDR ... 1,000sqkm (621 sq miles) of land still contaminated. It has among the highest ...

Last week, charity APOPO said Ronin was named the most successful Mine Detection ... their land, and the landmine clearance is making people feel safer to visit. The rats are trained to sniff ...

A landmine-hunting rat in Cambodia has set a new world record by sniffing out more than 100 mines and pieces of unexploded ...