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Videos

TED Talks: Bart Weetjens TEDxRotterdam: How I taught rats to sniff out landmines

Tanzania: HeroRats (PBS Frontline)

Check out HeroRats in action searching for land mines

Check out HeroRats sniffing for TB.

Articles

Mankind's new best friend?, by Colin Nickerson for Boston Globe

A profile on APOPO and its founder

Of Mice and Mines: Trained rats search for explosives, tuberculosis, by Thomas Wiburn fir Arts Technical

A more technical look at APOPO's training for HeroRats

Tanzania, by New York Times

Learn more about Tanzania through a collection of articles and external websites collected by the New York Times editors.

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