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One African giant pouched rat in Cambodia is making communities safer by sniffing out dangerous explosives—and he just set a record for his species. According to Smithsonian, the 5-year-old rat named ...

Ronin, a 5-year-old African giant pouched rat, has found 109 land mines and 15 other unexploded ordnances in Cambodia ...

Rats don’t always have the best reputations, but a rat called Ronin with a super sense of smell is working to change that.

Elizabeth Bowen Visiting Cambodia some years ago, I came upon a band of musicians busking at the side of the road. The dozen ...

A rat has sniffed his way into the record books — and saved lives in the process. Ronin the African giant pouched rat set a new world record for the most landmines detected by a rat. Guinness ...

In Cambodia alone, these explosives have caused more than 65,000 deaths since 1979. In other words, Ronin and other rats like ...

Ronin, a specially trained rat deployed to Cambodia, has helped locate more than 100 anti-personnel landmines littered around ...

Cambodia remains one of the world's most heavily landmined countries, owing to the deadly civil war that ended in 1998.

He’s a working sniff. A busy and highly trained rat has set a new world record after using his nose to find 109 landmines. Mr ...

Ronin the African giant pouched rat set a new world record for the most landmines detected by a rat. Guinness World Records ...