Saturday, 28. September 2002
Topic: SCIENCE - on September 28, 2002 at 1:36:05 AM CEST
Bees Trained to Sniff Land Mines
Trained honeybees have shown a remarkable ability to sniff out land mines, suggesting a possible new way to find the estimated 110 million unexploded land mines around the world, according to researchers at the University of Montana.
Jerry Bromenshenk has studied bees as pollution sensors and environmental sensors for the past 30 years. He said honeybees have proven themselves to be easier to train, harder working and more accurate than bomb-sniffing dogs.
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