African giant pouched rats, which have previously been trained to sniff out buried mines and detect tuberculosis, are now being used to stop smuggling in Tanzania, The Guardian reported.

PEMBA ISLAND, Tanzania — Pemba Island’s Ngezi Forest Reserve ... Image by Ryan Truscott for Mongabay. An unidentified species of rat seen in Ngezi that resembles the long-tailed pouched rat (Beamys ...

Seven months later, trials showed emphatically that rats could detect buried explosives, so in 2000 Weetjens and Cox set up in Tanzania. The organisation’s headquarters and training centre in ...

[iStockphoto] At least 19 African giant pouched rats are at the frontline of scaling up efforts aimed at ending tuberculosis (TB) in Tanzania by accelerating early detection. In Dar es Salaam ...

Dr Chris Faulkes’ research into evolution and biodiversity led to the discovery of two new mole-rat species in Tanzania. His team’s assessment for one of the species to be given ‘Endangered’ status, ...