These Rats Are Sniffing out Landmines And Saving Lives

Over 100 million land mines have been buried underground across the world. Giant rats from Tanzania are being trained to sniff them out and save lives.
And they’re doing so much more: They can also identify positive tuberculosis samples and are being sent into disaster zones to find surviving victims of earthquakes.
Meet the rats who are saving lives across the world.
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[@earthspirit516]

Rats..man's new best friend!

[@Greco-Canadian]

They've always been, gotta discard that black plague propaganda, rats have always been incredible animals!

[@johnmacdonald-bb2zj]

Rats are filthy creatures and are incredibly destructive and can attack you also .... these Rats on here look useful but they are still fatal disease spreading Rodents.

[@kittyonmydesk5532]

Perhaps these rats are rodent-based cats!
-clicker training
-highly intelligent/critically thinking
-socialization includes petting when they're young
Now, imagine if the average house cat saw one of these rats?

[@farronstrob]

Amazing video, thank you AJ❤️‍🩹

[@SarahMould]

This is such a wonderful charity. I've been supporting them for years, and urge others to do so too.

[@FA-wg1kp]

These are not Rats. They are little heroes. 😉😉😉

[@youngmasterzhi]

As I said before, “rats” spelled backwards equals “star”!

[@AyeAyeMon]

Such a brilliant idea! 👏

[@rezakarampour6286]

Rats are not bad after all .

[@DougGrinbergs]

5:11 160,000 mines detected in Africa, SE Asia. Also training for TB ID 6:22 earthquake survivor search

[@aevi09]

They need to call new york

[@colorbugoriginals4457]

These people are brilliantly resourceful 👍👍👍

[@moosetifa]

More exciting than high-tech robotics solutions. Amazing creatures and an ingenious group of researchers!

[@Fatma-mx6cc]

Wow this is amazing, I love it!

[@colorbugoriginals4457]

They are wonderful creatures. It's unfortunate that they are so often vermin for humans, too smart for their own good.

[@royalpeaceambassador7398]

GOD BLESS AFRICA

[@ZubairAhmed-px9jm]

🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭

[@megusato2212]

❤❤❤

[@ken_08]

cool

[@avi486]

The rats also help Vietnam's countless landmines, which have killed innocent peple decades after the war

[@dorotheapeters5444]

Tell your friends, your colleagues, your family about it! How small animals can save lifes. If somebody has lived in one of the countries mentioned or if somebody feels ashamed of how companies make money with our taxes by producing even more things to kill people - well, we are all humans and should join to undo these evil machinations!
There are no winners in any war.

[@leaedt7614]

The report does not explain how they find the landmines and how to get rid of them.

[@MangoNizer]

I could imagine they are trained to pull the beeper when they smell the tnt...

[@colorbugoriginals4457]

Most likely they smell them. Then alert the handler in whatever way they were taught (eg, by standing straight up at a spot when they get a hit.

[@colorbugoriginals4457]

0:32 "we train the rats to sniff out landmines"

[@jocelynevkb5889]

Low-tech solution from Peoples still in touch with the natural environment!

[@keithhowell4138]

They should be at the White House.

[@justadam1917]

😮 they are😅

[@Kevin-eg3mf]

Good people don't harm rats or mice

[@sene8406]

👍

[@jeremyslife6954]

Rats are smart

[@BenGalaz-go5gc]

Wowthat.good👍🐭🐭🐭

[@johnransom1146]

Innovative,low tech, flexible. Great. Send them money taken from arms makers

[@suhelsheth4621]

The question is who put them there ... im convinced it was the Taliba (according to the CIA)

[@KironManuelCards]

Little education improves everyone.

[@nazninequreshi3972]

I smell a rat….

[@israfel070]

VICE went out of business and AJ+ is just posting little videos about rats

[@blutrashbag]

The rats are just little giys

[@mobidick6064]

Can they detect cancer in humans