Giant African rats may soon be the key to fighting illegal wildlife trafficking. New research from nonprofit APOPO, published Oct. 29, shows that African giant pouched rats can be trained to identify ...

African giant pouched rats, known for their exceptional sense of smell, are being used to detect trafficked wildlife and illegal plant trade, scientists said in the journal Frontiers in Conservation ...

African giant pouched rats can detect illegally trafficked wildlife, even when it has been concealed among other substances. Source: APOPO, used with permission. The scale of the illegal wildlife ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - 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 ...

Land mines and tuberculosis are two of the deadliest problems on the planet. Bart Weetjens has the same solution for both of them: Rats. When he was a college student at the University of Antwerp, ...

New York City is at war with rats. That much was made clear after Mayor Eric Adams recently appointed a rat czar, who will be tasked with killing the pesky rodents. A researcher on the West Coast, ...

As an ambassador for rats, it's never easy to win over the public. There's that hairless tail after all.But Runa at the San Diego Zoo is doing her best to counter the bad press. She is one of a ...