Giant rats used to sniff out land mines..

[Dead Money]

http://www.npr.org/sections/paralle...rained-to-sniff-out-land-mines-and-save-lives

Pics and more info at site...

Each rat is responsible for clearing a 200-square-meter (239-square-yard) patch of land. Their Cambodian supervisor, Hulsok Heng, says they're good at it.

"They are very good," he says. "You see this 200 square meters? They clear in only 30 minutes or 35 minutes. If you compare that to a deminer, maybe two days or three days. The deminer will pick up all the fragmentation, the metal in the ground, but the rat picks up only the smell of TNT. Not fragmentation or metal or a nail or a piece of crap in the ground."

That's right: Someone using a metal-detecting machine will take a lot longer to detect a land mine than a rat using its nose.

 

[SixFive]

I hope they get them all cleared. Think about your children living in an area with thousands of active land mines that they could detonate if their ball goes too far into the bush and they are searching for it or maybe by playing hide and seek. Scary and sad. Good job rats.

 

[Cie]

I hope they get them all cleared. Think about your children living in an area with thousands of active land mines that they could detonate if their ball goes too far into the bush and they are searching for it or maybe by playing hide and seek. Scary and sad. Good job rats.

I wouldn't recommend starting a family in this area.

#ratlivesmatter

 

[SixFive]

I wouldn't recommend starting a family in this area.

#ratlivesmatter

me neither, but we are more blessed than many who are from that area. Count your blessings, friend.

PS I'm not too holy to look at hot women. :0074

 

[kickserv]

yet another reason why animals are awesome.

 

[Statman02]

with the rat walking behind the handler, the handler is going to set off the mine before the rat finds it.......not that good of an idea

 

[Dead Money]

with the rat walking behind the handler, the handler is going to set off the mine before the rat finds it.......not that good of an idea

Actually I think that pic shows the rat and handler on a well earned break, going for a cold brewski....:0025