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  Rats help find mines
[ 2006-05-15 10:08 ]

Runcho sniffs the mouth of a police animal trainer at a police school in Sibate, Colombia, May 3, 2006. Colombian police are training white-furred, pink-eyed rats to locate landmines in Colombia, "the rats are much smarter than the anti-explosives dogs, and can stand on a mine without anything happening", Police Colonel Javier Cifuentes, head of the training program said Colombia had the world's highest number of mine-related deaths and injuries last year. (Reuters)


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