Nairobi – Africa’s giant rats have been trained to sniff out landmines and detect tuberculosis in humans, and soon they could turn their superior noses to protecting other animals by finding illegal wildlife trophies being smuggled out of African ports. Kirsty Brebner, whose organisation Endangered Wildlife Trust had the idea of putting rats to work on the illegal wildlife trade, disclosed this on Friday in Nairobi.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/11/african-rats-trained-sniff-landmines-detect-tuberculosis-humans/
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/11/african-rats-trained-sniff-landmines-detect-tuberculosis-humans/
