In demining rats are much more productive than your brain: a couple of rodents in 20 minutes you can explore the 200 square meters of land, on which the miners-people will require approximately 25 hours.

Mozambique – one of the richest mines of countries to work with the engineers here are very unsafe. But not what people can easily and safely do rats.

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Special rodent – Mine Detection Rats – cooks Belgian organization "Arora". Her "students" cleared more than 6 million square meters of land in Mozambique found 2406 landmines, 992 bombs and 13 025 various weapons, equipment and ammunition, according to boredpanda.com.

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In demining rats are much more productive than your brain: a couple of rodents for 20 minutes can examine 200 square meters of land, on which the miners-people will require approximately 25 hours.



And for rats it is almost safe: the small weight of these rodents mines did not respond. But in the animals there is another enemy – the sun, the ears of the rats have to handle a special cream to avoid cancer from exposure to sunlight.

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the Cost of training one rats is 6000 euros, and animals are 4-5 years, and then resign, so as to lose interest in the work. According to Arora, demining, no rat died.

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