Imagine seeing a giant rat as a welcome sight, the same way you greet a talented colleague at work in the morning. Coffee ...

Some consider rats, not to be confused with mice, as pests. Others deem them lifesavers. One African giant pouched rat in Cambodia is making communities safer by sniffing out dangerous explosives—and ...

Across the world, there are estimated to be over 110 million landmines still buried in more than 60 countries. According to ...

Elizabeth Bowen Visiting Cambodia some years ago, I came upon a band of musicians busking at the side of the road. The dozen ...

Ronin, a 5-year-old African giant pouched rat, has found 109 land mines and 15 other unexploded ordnances in Cambodia ...

A Westmeath woman has expressed her surprise and pride after a landmine-hunting rat that she adopted in Cambodia set a world ...

Ronin, an African giant pouched rat, has uncovered 109 landmines and 15 unexploded ordnance (UXO) items since 2021, according to Apopo, a Belgian non-profit organisation that trains these animals, the ...

The Belgian non-profit APOPO announced that Ronin, an African giant pouched rat, had become the most successful Mine Detection Rat (MDR) in the organization’s history, earning a Guinness World Record ...

Ronin, a remarkable five-year-old rat trained by APOPO, has achieved a Guinness World Record for detecting the most explosives. Deployed in Cambodia, he swiftly clears minefields, a task that ...

Ronin is one of more than 100 rats trained by APOPO to detect the scent of the explosive chemicals and point landmines out to their handlers. Ronin, who is 5 years old and was born in Tanzania, is ...