Non-profit APOPO is training rodents to search the rubble of disaster zones for survivors. Wearing tiny, high-tech backpacks, it hopes to help first responders communicate with and find survivors.

The Process of Training HeroRATS APOPO uses a simple sensory process and positive reinforcement to train these rats to distinguish and sniff out TNT, through a clicker sound and a food reward.

African giant pouched rats use their acute sense of smell to sniff out landmines and detect TB in sputum samples. Now, they are set to become search-and-rescue specialists too.

Rats trained by researchers at nonprofit Apopo may soon be the next fleet of scent-sniffing heroes to save wildlife.

Non-profit APOPO says it has trained rats to sniff out elephant tusks, rhino horns, pangolin scales and other wildlife products that are trafficked out of Africa.

A rat named Ronin has set a new Guinness World Record by detecting 109 land mines in Cambodia over the last four years. Ronin is an African giant pouched rat who works with APOPO, a nonprofit that ...

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 ...

Giant African rats may soon be the key to fighting illegal wildlife trafficking. New research from nonprofit APOPO, published Oct. 29, shows that African giant pouched rats can be trained to ...

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.

Ronin the African giant pouched rat is one of more than 100 rats trained by a Belgian nonprofit to sniff out deadly land mines. Guinness World Records / APOPO Former conflict zones are littered ...

For the past four years an African giant pouched rat named Ronin has been using his sensitive nose to sniff out record-breaking 109 landmines and other weapons that have been buried for decades in ...

Non-profit APOPO says it has trained rats to sniff out elephant tusks, rhino horns, pangolin scales and other wildlife products that are trafficked out of Africa.