Lola - Bomb Sniffing Rat

[Arlene]

Not only beauty but brains! Isn't she adorable? This is nothing we didn't know!



http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/queen-of-the-bombsniffers/2006/05/11/1146940660688.html

 

[Nickelrat]

Go Lola, go!! What a great article. And Lola is so cute in that pic. :love1: I'm so glad to hear that rats are too tiny to set off land mines. :tiptoe:
Thanks for sharing. Arlene.

 

[LA]

This is so fascinating. Luckily they don't set the bombs off. Kudos to the intellegence of rats.

 

[chicky82]

Cool article :thumbup: It's good she's little enough not to set off the bombs at only 220g probably any of our boys would set them off with most of them weighing far more than 200g :tongue: that's if we could even motivate any of them to move :sleepy: although I'm sure they'd follow Lola

 

[Melissa]

Aww, what a cute girl.

"About a year ago, inspired by a similar pilot program in Mozambique, the police bought this group of rats and were surprised to find that they learned twice as fast as dogs how to sniff out explosives, such as C4, used to make mines."

Teehee, smart little creatures.

 

[Moon]

That is a great article. Thanks for sharing, Arlene!

 

[ratamataz]

What a cute little girl. Interesting article!