Located at Sokoine University of Agriculture in Morogoro, it is known for training African giant rats that have been deployed around the world, from detecting landmines and explosives in ...

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LOWELL — Middlesex Community College will welcome author, anthropologist and filmmaker Darcie DeAngelo for a discussion of her book, “How to Love a Rat: Detecting Bombs in Postwar Cambodia,” at 12:30 ...

They're known as 'hero rats' and for good reason. In Tanzania, African giant pouched rats are being trained to sniff out landmines, diseases and even humans buried under rubble. They have a highly ...

MOROGORO, Tanzania — A man lies unmoving, slumped in the rubble of a simulated earthquake, as an unlikely rescuer approaches: a rat with a backpack. Whiskers waving, the rat breezes past garbage, ...