Rats have become indispensable in helping specialists detect land mines that have killed and maimed thousands in Cambodia.

Rats are opportunistic foragers who get into trouble a lot. They like to chew, which tends not to end well for them. In our ...

There's no clear "best sniffer" in the animal kingdom, but one contender is the Gambian pouched rat (Cricetomys gambianus, a species of African pouched rat), which can be trained to smell landmines ...

It is the largest species of rat in the Australia and Oceania region, and one of the largest species in the world, alongside the Gambian pouched rat (Cricetomys gambianus), which measures 34.6 ...

A rat named Ronin has set a new Guinness World Record by detecting 109 land mines in Cambodia over the last four years. Ronin is an African giant pouched rat who works with APOPO, a nonprofit that ...

He's an African giant pouched rat who's been trained and works with the nonprofit organization APOPO.

From land mine detection to sniffing out illegally trafficked wildlife parts, a group of trained African giant pouched rats in Tanzania is proving a valuable partner for humans, Mongabay’s Lucia ...

Super-Sniffing Rat Sets a New World Record for Discovering Deadly Land Mines—and He’s Just Getting Started Ronin, a 5-year-old African giant pouched rat, has found 109 land mines and 15 other ...

A rat has sniffed his way into the record books — and saved lives in the process. Ronin the African giant pouched rat set a new world record for the most landmines detected by a rat. Guinness ...

Addis Ababa, April 6, 2025 (E NA)— A mine-sniffing rat has earned a Guinness World Records title for sniffing more than 100 landmines and items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Cambodia, charity ...

A mine-sniffing African giant pouched rat named Ronin has been acknowledged by the Guinness World Records.

A mine-sniffing African giant pouched rat named Ronin has been acknowledged by the Guinness World Records.