Friday, 7. November 2003
Topic: W A R - on November 7, 2003 at 7:51:02 PM CET
Rats to sniff for landmines
A Belgian research project for detecting landmines, using specially trained sniffer rats, will be launched next week when the first batch of rodents are sent on their first assignment to Mozambique.
African giant pouched rats were trained over three years to sniff out explosives at a test site, in Tanzania. They spent two months in field trials among heavily mined areas of Mozambique, along the Limpopo banks.
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