Giant rats put noses to work on Mozambique's landmines

Re:Giant rats put noses to work on Mozambique's landmines by DanBC on Saturday May 17, 2014 @03:26PM (#7760812)

This idea seems to be taking a long time to be put into use. I read about it in 2004 - here's an interview talking about rats, dogs, and bees http://www.irinnews.org/indepthmain.aspx?InDepthId=19&Report...

Here's a page with a bit more information about rat demining including some video http://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00028535.html

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Re:Giant rats put noses to work on Mozambique's landmines by e12e on Saturday May 17, 2014 @05:48PM (#7761196)

Yeah, not surprising though. It's one of those things where 99.9% clear means a few children blown up every now and then. Having a field with "hardly any mines" really isn't good enough, so I can imagine it would take a long time to vet new procedures.

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