Rats trained to find people in collapsed buildings from earthquakes flooding and hurricanes

📹HeroRATS
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Changing the rap on rats 🐀Nicknamed, 'HeroRATs,' an African giant pouched rats scent-sational sense of smell and light weight make them ideal detectors of landmines and tuberculosis. As an ambassador for her species, Runa's favo-rat thing to do is show off these special skills.

Lots of #Welfare themed talks today at #Behaviour2023 with food for thought on how to best measure & further improve it in our #HeroRats and harvest its good impact on their capabilities & applied scent detection work! #WorkingAnimals #AppliedScience #RealWorldImpact

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Visited Apopo in Siem Reap to learn about (and hold!) the mine-clearing APOPO. An amazing NGO whose furry (& human) staff are saving lives right across Cambodia 🇰🇭

Enjoy this 7 second timelapse of Ezron demonstrating the rats’ explosive detection nose capabilities 🐀

Meet Jenny and Zefania, two hero rats working with APOPO in Cambodia. These ladies are trained to smell landmines that can then be identified to help keep land safe. Their work is inspiring and a true testament to what rats can achieve!
(Thanks to Maneesh Sethi for sharing)

Science girl This is HeroRAT Montana.

HeroRATs are African giant pouched rats trained by the NGO APOPO. HeroRATs use their highly developed sense of smell to sniff out the chemical compounds of explosives and tuberculosis bacteria.

More below. 👇

This is how mine detection rats, aka #HEROrats , are trained. They are now also used in demining efforts #Azerbaijan . In order to remove 1.5 million landmines every help is welcome.

'From little acorns, grow mighty oaks.'

These tiny pups are starting socialization and habituation into the human world. In around 9 months to a year they will be fully accredited #HeroRATs . 🤎

#africangiantpouchedrat #wecouldbeheroes #futureheroes #training

APOPO began training HeroRATs for search and rescue. The rats have a great sense of smell, and their size is useful because they can penetrate into areas with dense rubble and debris to search for survivors.

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i think heroRATs are pretty cool and you should totally spoil them with gifts ;)

#TeamEurope Ambassadors visited Apopo APOPO in Morogoro, a unique center where rats are trained to detect landmines and tuberculosis, saving countless lives.
This life-saving initiative is supported by Belgium 🇧🇪 and Poland 🇵🇱
Embassy of Poland in Tanzania
EU in Tanzania

Doğal bir afette, bir fare tarafından kurtarılmak ister miydiniz?

Fareler, depremde çöken binalarda enkaz altında kalan ve su baskınlarına uğrayan insanları bulmak üzere eğitiliyorlar.

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Science girl
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On my visit to the latest UNESCO World Heritage site, Koh Ker in #Cambodia this week, I saw the de-mining team with their Apopo HeroRats working close to the temples and the Koh Ker village to make the area safe. Fantastic work.

I have been 'adopting' HeroRats for 12 years now. Very happy to support an amazing organization. #APOPO #HeroRats

It’s that time of the week again: #FullCheekFriday ! 🐭🎉

For Banksy, a banana is not just a treat… It’s a way of life, bringing joy and cheek-filling satisfaction with every bite 🍌🍌

#APOPO #herorats #rats #FCF #hellofriday #weekendvibes

A little illustration inspired by the brave hero-rats, and a very old article about them! APOPO ccccomedy.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/the…

Here is another Fun Fact about our #HeroRat Carolina!

Picture Credit: Apopo HeroRats

#StopTB #EndTB #InvestToEndTB #rat #rat s #diagnosis #publichealth #globalhealth #Apopo #infectiousdiseases #newapproach #awareness #research #funfact #update