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moon_custafer ([personal profile] moon_custafer) wrote2012-02-11 07:59 am
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It's Like "Willard" with a Happier Ending

Using trained rats to detect land mines. These aren't regular rats, but those giant African pouched rats. Apparently it was a Belgian aid worker who had the idea (he'd kept rats as a kid). They're also training rats to detect TB in sputum samples.

[identity profile] leave-harmony.livejournal.com 2012-02-12 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Those are some goshdarn cute heroes they have, there <3