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Rats being used to sniff out land mines
Ian Wood visits a training centre in Inhambane, Mozambique where rats are used to detect land mines
They are almost universally despised as disease-carrying vermin and are attacked wherever they are found.
A rat sniffing for mines (top) and in-harness
But in an experimental scheme in Africa the special talents of the rat are being harnessed to help save lives.
It is estimated that there...
