An African giant pouched rat is being honored in the record books after detecting more than 100 landmines and other undetonated explosives in Cambodia, Belgian non-profit APOPO announced Friday.

Sponsor Message Daniel is one of a cohort of elite "rescue rats” currently enrolled at the Apopo training centre in the Tanzanian town of Morogoro. Since the early 2000s, Apopo’s African giant ...

These are African Giant Pouched Rats. Apopo is a non-profit that has turned this animal into a life-saving hero.

APOPO "He's a very hardworking rat," Cindy Fast, head of APOPO's training and research efforts, tells PEOPLE of the group's star landmine-sniffing rodent Since 1979, nearly 20,000 people — many ...

One of the best examples is the APOPO Visitor Center in Siem Reap, where you can meet HeroRATs and learn how this organization is helping countries become landmine-free for the first time in decades.

Tanzania-based non-profit APOPO has already demonstrated the ability of the cat-sized rodents, which it calls “HeroRATs,” to sniff out landmines, tuberculosis, and even survivors among ...

Get a behind-the-scenes look at how APOPO trains African giant pouched rats to save lives Not a fan of rats? Well, they might save your life. APOPO is a global nonprofit organization that trains ...

Ronin is an African giant pouched rat who works with APOPO, a nonprofit that trains rats to detect unexploded ordnance, land mines and tuberculosis. APOPO’s rats have cleared more than 122 ...

Ronin is only five years old and could have two or more years of detection work ahead of him, according to Apopo, the charity that trained him. “The life-changing results of APOPO’s HeroRATs, their ...

“Everybody’s first impression is that the rats are our enemies,” Tefera Agizew, a physician and APOPO’s head of tuberculosis, says of the animals’ reputation in Africa and beyond.

The giant pouched rat has been named by the Belgian charity as its most successful Mine Detection Rat (MDR) for uncovering 109 landmines and 15 items of unexploded ordnance since 2021, Apopo said ...

And peanuts just happen to be his favorite food. Daniel is one of a cohort of elite "rescue rats" currently enrolled at the Apopo training centre in the Tanzanian town of Morogoro. Since the early ...