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An African giant pouched rat is being honored in the record books after detecting more than 100 landmines and other ...

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

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

Ronin, an African giant pouched rat, has entered the Guinness World Records for detecting over 100 landmines in Cambodia.

Rats don’t always have the best reputations, but a rat called Ronin with a super sense of smell is working to change that.

Cambodia remains one of the world's most heavily landmined countries, owing to the deadly civil war that ended in 1998.

Ronin surpassed the previous record of 71 landmines by another APOPO HeroRAT, Magawa, who retired in May 2021. The People's Dispensary for Sick Animals gave out a bravery medal to Magawa for his ...

Ronin, a specially trained rat deployed to Cambodia, has helped locate more than 100 anti-personnel landmines littered around ...

The giant pouched rat has been named by the Belgian charity as its most successful Mine Detection Rat (MDR) for uncovering ...

The African giant pouched rat named Ronin, which means 'masterless samurai,' has discovered 109 landmines and 15 items of ...