Magawa, an African giant pouched rat, received a medal for his life-saving work detecting undetonated landmines
Magawa, an African giant pouched rat, was given a gold medal by the British veterinary charity People's Dispensary for Sick Animals for his work detecting undetonated landmines in Cambodia.Decades of conflict have left the Southeast Asian country littered with millions of landmines, unexploded ordnance , and other explosive remnants of war that still kill or injure dozens of people each year.
African giant pouched rats are intelligent and easy to train, according to the press release; Magawa began training from a young age, and"passed all his tests with flying colors" before being deployed to Cambodia.He has been trained to ignore scrap metal lying about, and signals to his handler when he detects a landmine's exact location.
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