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Rats being trained to detect land mines and TB bacterium

We usually don't think fondly of rats. (Unless maybe you've read "Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of Nimh") But rats are highly intelligent, adaptive creatures.

Similar to using dogs to detect drugs, an organization called APOPO is training rats to sniff out land mines and also detect disease, such as tuberculosis.