African giant pouched rats can be trained to identify illegally trafficked wildlife through scent detection. APOPO ...

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Rats with tiny backpacks are being used to sniff out illegally trafficked wildlife items. African giant pouched rats have ...

Rats, often not the most welcome visitors in our gardens for their breeding and scavenging habits, can use your outdoor space ...

Forget fictional Rodents of Unusual Size – for wildlife traffickers, there are real life giant rats to be feared, after researchers successfully trained African giant pouched rats to pick up the ...

This is where the rats and their acute sense of smell come in. According to new research led by APOPO and published in Frontiers in Conservation Science, the rats have been successfully trained ...

The world’s largest rats could help conservationists in the ... The researchers said new methods need to be developed. More than 4,000 species are affected by wildlife trafficking around the ...

While that's indeed big for a rat, it makes the animal small enough that it could wander among tightly packed crates in shipping containers to combat illegally smuggled products. In a new study ...

The new study could ultimately have impacts on medical research. Researching rat frequencies can become a model for treating communicative-related illnesses like Parkinson’s, autism ...

First, relax. “In my decades of flying as an airline pilot, testing other pilots and training new pilots, I’ve personally never seen or even heard of a rat on an aircraft,” says Patrick ...