Tanzanian Trained Giant Rats to Detect Landmines

Local time on June 17, in the local APOPO training center of Morogoro, Tanzania, one giant rat who is from Afghanistan are being trained to detect buried land mines and other metal objects inside. With respect to the ordinary mine detectors, the detection speed of these rats is much faster, and they can very quickly detect the objects that are buried in the ground and contain a metal content.

In addition to de-mining, these rats also have an excellent sense of smell and it can be used to detect tuberculosis. According to the foreign media reports, the amount that a giant rat detects the tuberculosis samples in ten minutes is more than the amount that a technician tests the tuberculosis samples in one day. Just as the de-mining, testing of tuberculosis needs new, rapid and inexpensive detection technology, and these giant rats provide a new solution.

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