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Post by Die Fledermaus on Jun 26, 2007 22:20:03 GMT -4
You have to check this site out! www.herorats.orgIt is about giant Gambian pouched rats being trained to hunt land mines in Africa. And that site is wild and great fun! The above old link is now defunct. Try this one: LINK HEREBut now they are also sniffing out Tuberculosis!  |
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Post by llamaniac on Jun 27, 2007 8:00:05 GMT -4
That is really cool!
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Post by sisco18 on Jun 27, 2007 8:27:32 GMT -4
that is pretty sweet they must have be able to smell really well then like dogs.
the game is very fun to thanks for sharing the site.
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Post by pinky on Jun 29, 2007 0:17:04 GMT -4
I don't know the first thing about Minesweeper, but the whole concept of sniffing rats is way cool!  |
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Jun 30, 2007 20:50:06 GMT -4
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Jul 1, 2007 0:02:36 GMT -4
I just noticed ads for this are appearing at the top of this board in the ads section.
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Aug 3, 2009 20:30:57 GMT -4
Just saw the stpory of these rats on the Globetrekker TV show which is in Mozambique right now hunting land mines.
The rats are very friendly and cuddly, and about the size of a medium-sized rabbit. Make a nice pet, a pair of them.
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Post by Hamsters82 on Aug 3, 2009 21:05:50 GMT -4
Those are brave rats and it's neat how animals can help people out.  |
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Aug 3, 2009 23:10:26 GMT -4
It reminded me of dogs detecting epileptic seizures before they happen.
I heard some animals can sniff out cancer.
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Post by Hamsters82 on Aug 5, 2009 7:17:47 GMT -4
I heard they can too and have seen it on tv, it's quite amazing what animals can do. I heard the Navy was using dolphins to see if there was an enemy bomb near by and others stuff. It's really cool how they use animals to help.
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Aug 5, 2009 13:26:08 GMT -4
In World War One they discovered that the very best way to clean out infected terrible wounds was to dump maggots in them. True story.
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Post by pinky on Aug 10, 2009 16:59:33 GMT -4
True indeed.
I recall reading somewhere that there is still a place for maggots in modern medicine. . .
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Aug 10, 2009 22:59:15 GMT -4
What about leeches?? |
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