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

Non-profit APOPO says it has trained rats to sniff out elephant tusks, rhino horns, pangolin scales and other wildlife ...

so it is not reflective of the real world settings where wildlife is commonly trafficked or screened by scent-detection animals. In order to deploy these rats, new methods need to be developed ...

“Unfortunately, organized crime knows there’s a real weak spot in detection methods of ports, seaports and airports, particularly in Africa.” Once the sniffer rats had mastered their ...

I didn’t want to believe that I was a lab rat being experimented on. But after a while, I just couldn’t deny it anymore,” she said.

The intelligent rodents have a particularly keen nose and have been previously trained to detect landmines and tuberculosis.

“Wildlife smuggling is often conducted by individuals engaged in other illegal activities, including human, drug, and arms trafficking,” Webb noted. “Therefore, deploying rats to combat wildlife ...

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“There has also been interest in wildlife detection rats from Singapore and France,” she added. Trialing these research findings in the real world, APOPO last year conducted a proof-of-concept ...