Training Rats To Save Lives • APOPO
APOPO’s scent detection animals, nicknamed ‘HeroRATs’ and ‘HeroDOGs’, help to rid the world of landmines and tuberculosis – returning safe land back to communities for development, and …
Is it time to stop hating the rat? - BBC
2018年1月16日 · Today, in parts of Africa rats are helping to save lives and fight disease. The charity Apopo, working with the Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania, trains rats to …
Global Organization Trains Hero Rats to Sniff Out Undetonated …
6 天之前 · APOPO is a global non-profit organization that trains rats to save lives. The group uses African giant pouched rats to sniff out landmines and detect tuberculosis.
Carolina the giant rat retires as a hero after saving many lives
2025年3月14日 · Subscribe now and save $10. SUBSCRIBE. And for every tuberculosis infection detected by a rat, it’s estimated that 10 to 15 more humans are saved from an infection, since …
Forget dogs: These rats could be the future of search and rescue …
2021年12月16日 · Donna Kean and her colleagues at APOPO, a nonprofit that trains pouched rats to save lives, have spent the past 2 decades working with the curious animals …
Bart Weetjens: Training rats to save lives - NPR
2023年2月24日 · Bart Weetjens is a Zen Buddhist monk and former industrial engineer who founded Apopo, an organization that trains animals to sniff out landmines and illnesses like …
The rats that save lives - CNN
2014年9月26日 · Tanzania-based NGO Apopo trains giant African pouched rats to sniff out land mines and detect tuberculosis -- two scourges that have had a tremendously negative impact …
Mine Sniffing Rats - APOPO
Our African giant pouched rats, nicknamed HeroRATs, are helping to find landmines and detecting tuberculosis as part of an integrated approach. When deployed alongside standard …
Rodents to the rescue: Trained rats with hi-tech backpacks could save …
2022年11月11日 · If Belgian non-profit APOPO is successful, search and rescue workers in Tanzania could have a new pint-sized ally to help execute their difficult job: a giant rat in a tiny …
Rats to the Rescue: How a Belgian non-profit company is training ...
2022年10月25日 · Who knew rats are capable of doing more than creating a menace? A Belgian non-profit company called APOPO has proved that rats might be helpful in search and rescue …