Magawa Rat Helped in detecting landmines
Chennai, Nov 8: A five year old African giant pouched rat named Magawa, is the first rat to receive the PDSA gold medal ( an award for bravery and devotion to duty by non-military animals) for finding 39 landmines (an explosive mine under the ground) and 28 other potentially dangerous items. He got trained at APOPO’s HeroRAT training and research centre in Tanzania.
He learned to detect the smell of explosives using his nose. He has sniffed across 140,000 square metres of land (area equivalent to 20 football pitches).
Thus Magawa has helped to save the mankind from this unknown danger hidden inside the earth.
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