One African giant pouched rat in Cambodia is making communities safer by sniffing out dangerous explosives—and he just set a record for his species. According to Smithsonian, the 5-year-old rat named ...

Across the world, there are estimated to be over 110 million landmines still buried in more than 60 countries. According to the Mine Action Review, in 2023, there were 1,431 deaths and 5,241 recorded ...

Former conflict zones are littered with land mines, a type of controversial concealed weapon designed to kill or maim anyone ...

Ronin the African giant pouched rat set a new world record for the most landmines detected by a rat. Guinness World Records ...

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

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

Ronin, a giant African pouched rat, has tracked down 109 landmines and 15 other potentially deadly war remnants since his ...

A landmine-hunting rat in Cambodia has set a new world record by sniffing out more than 100 mines and pieces of unexploded ...

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

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 ...

He’s a working sniff. A busy and highly trained rat has set a new world record after using his nose to find 109 landmines. Mr. Funk was the managing editor of Pleroma Media, and worked as a breaking ...

Since his deployment in 2021, Ronin, a giant African pouched rat, has sniffed out 109 landmines and 15 other unexploded war remnants, according to the nonprofit APOPO. “His exceptional ...