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Landmines Detection Product Development') is a registered Belgian non-governmental organisation and US non-profit which trains southern giant pouched rats and

Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents. Species of rats are found throughout the order Rodentia, but stereotypical rats are found in the genus

(link) "We train rats to save lives". APOPO. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Dutch organization that raises and trains detection rats for worldwide

domesticated rodents. Healthy fancy rats typically live 2 to 3 years, but are capable of living a year or so longer. Fancy rats are used widely in medical research

point-of-care testing that directly detects the presence or absence of an antigen. RATs are a type of lateral flow test detecting antigens, rather than antibodies

Beyene, N.; Durgin, A.; Mahoney, A. (2011). "Tuberculosis detection by giant African pouched rats". The Behavior Analyst. 34 (1). U.S. National Institutes

Landmine Detection". APOPO. Archived from the original on 5 September 2022. Retrieved 10 September 2009. Richardson, Nigel (17 February 2019). "Hero rats, singing

Weetjens, Bart. How I taught rats to sniff out land mines, TED Talks, Rotterdam, 2010 (accessed 16 September 2011) "TB Detection". APOPO. 23 August 2024.

organization APOPO trains Gambian pouched rats known as HeroRATS, for landmine detection as well as the detection of tuberculosis. Notably, the Sokoine University

detection dogs can find laboratory rats and mice in a large rodent-free area of 32 hectares (79 acres). Some specific types of feces that detection dogs