African giant pouched rats use their acute sense of smell to sniff out landmines and detect TB in sputum samples. Now, they are set to become search-and-rescue specialists too.

New research from nonprofit APOPO, published Oct. 29, shows that African giant pouched rats can be trained to identify illegally trafficked wildlife through scent detection.

In the past, African giant pouched rats have been able to learn how to detect explosives and the pathogen that causes tuberculosis. Now, a team of researchers has trained the rats to identify the ...

For the past four years an African giant pouched rat named Ronin has been using his sensitive nose to sniff out record-breaking 109 landmines and other weapons that have been buried for decades in ...

Carolina isn't your average retiree. After seven years of devoted work, Carolina, an African giant pouched rat, had sniffed out more than 3,000 cases of tuberculosis that medical tests had missed ...

African giant pouched rats use their acute sense of smell to sniff out landmines and detect TB in sputum samples. Now, they are set to become search-and-rescue specialists too.

African giant pouched rats use their acute sense of smell to sniff out landmines and detect TB in sputum samples. Now, they are set to become search-and-rescue specialists too.

African giant pouched rats use their acute sense of smell to sniff out landmines and detect TB in sputum samples. Now, they are set to become search-and-rescue specialists too.

African giant pouched rats use their acute sense of smell to sniff out landmines and detect TB in sputum samples. Now, they are set to become search-and-rescue specialists too.