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Ronin, a rat trained to sniff out explosives, has earned an entry in the Guinness Book of Records after finding a record 109 landmines and 15 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Cambodia’s northern ...

A bomb-detecting rat has smashed a world record by sniffing out more than 100 landmines in Cambodia. Since his deployment in 2021, Ronin, a giant African ... APOPO trains rats to detect chemicals ...

Ronin and his landmine-sniffing rat pack are making a name for rodents everywhere by saving innocent civilians from hidden explosives. The African giant pouched rat recently set a new world record ...

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An African giant pouched rat is being honored in the record books after detecting more than 100 landmines and other undetonated explosives in Cambodia, Belgian non-profit APOPO announced Friday.