Rat That Sniffs Out Land Mines Receives Award for Bravery

     The current event that I read about was a rat that sniffed out a land mines. The 5 year old rat Magawa has saved countless lives by clearing 141,000 square meters of land of unexploded land mines. He earned the PDSA gold medal. The idea of using rats was made because using metal detectors or other things was too expensive and took too long. Using a rat was inexpensive and they are fast. What a rat could do in one day, a machine could do in 4 days.

    I think the effect this has on the world is positive. If people can train more rats, less money and time would be used and more lives could be saved. We should start going to clinics and turning rats into bomb sniffers already!

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  1. chrheaSeptember 30, 2020 at 1:59 PM

    Wow! I had no idea that rats could be trained to do anything. This is incredibly useful--there are still so many areas riddled with old land mines.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 14, 2020 at 10:44 AM

    this is amazing with this we could help save more soldiers on the frontlines and help war ridden countries to recover easier

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  3. AnonymousOctober 14, 2020 at 12:07 PM

    This was a very interesting article to read. I do think that rats are smart in a way because, as the article said, they can sniff out anything. Maybe in the future we can have rats and mice help with crimes.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 15, 2020 at 7:33 AM

    I can't believe that a tiny little rat was able to clear land mines and save so many lives. I never thought of rats as anything more than rats, but I realize now that they are smart enough to be trained like this. I wonder what other things they would be able to do.

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  5. AnonymousOctober 19, 2020 at 3:03 PM

    I find it cool that people are finding better uses for rats, other than just random tests and experiments. However, we should find a better way to reward the rats, as they might not find much use in a medal. I'm really interested to see what we do next with rats!

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