SEARCH AND RESCUE RATS ARE BEING TRAINED TO FIND EARTHQUAKE SURVIVORS AMONG THE RUBBLE
Jul 06, 2022
3 minutes
WHY RATS?
They can contribute something that the other technologies can’t, at least for the areas we work in. Their sense of smell and their trainability is on a par with dogs. But it’s the rats’ small size that really makes a difference.
At APOPO [an acronym from the Dutch for Anti-Personnel Landmine Detection Product Development], we work with the African giant pouched rat (). We taught them to detect landmines because they’re too small and too light to trigger the devices. We’re teaching them to detect the scent
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