All of APOPO’s rats are bred and trained for either landmine ... hip hip hooray for the hero, and celebrate together. It’s really a touching moment.” ...

For the past two decades, Apopo, a non-governmental organisation founded in Belgium, has been utilising their extraordinary sense of smell to find explosives all over the world. The rats have also ...

APOPO is an acronym for the Dutch phrase ... really awesome things.” The Hero Rats’ sensitive sniffers are being put to use on other problems besides land mines, like disease control.

If all goes according to plan, the pangolin-sniffing rats could finally get to work in about a year or so. APOPO's Pursey told the AP that the rodents will stick to perusing cargo rather than ...

APOPO is also training “rescue rats” to potentially save lives. The work was published Wednesday in the journal Frontiers in ...

In the summer of 2013, I visited the headquarters of the organization Apopo in Morogoro, Tanzania, to make a photographic report of its activities. Apopo trains rats to sniff out landmines and ...

APOPO, a nonprofit in Tanzania, is training giant rats equipped with tiny vests in scent detection to prevent illegal wildlife trafficking. Video produced by Ellenoor Shameli Expert says that US ...

Researchers trained African giant pouched rats to detect illegally trafficked wildlife species and remember targets for several months. Image APOPO Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...