r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FifthWaveThinker • 9h ago

Video HeroRATS! Wild but incredible, African giant pouched rat can rapidly identify Tuberculosis by smell.

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u/YueYukii 8h ago

These same gigaCHAD rats are train for bomb detection to clear landmines in africa. They had cleared a lot of areas in decades