A rat named Ronin has set a new Guinness World Record by detecting 109 land mines in Cambodia over the last four years.

“Ronin has detected an impressive 109 landmines and 15 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO), surpassing the previous record ...

Ronin, a 5-year-old African giant pouched rat, has found 109 land mines and 15 other unexploded ordnances in Cambodia ...

A rat sponsored by a Westmeath woman has achieved the Guinness World Record for the Most Landmines Detected by a Rat, thanks ...

APOPO "He's a very hardworking rat," Cindy Fast, head of APOPO's training and research efforts, tells PEOPLE of the group's star landmine-sniffing rodent Since 1979, nearly 20,000 people — many ...

Anti-Personnel Landmines Detection Product Development (APOPO), a Belgian non-governmental organization, has just announced that HeroRAT Ronin has broken the Guinness World Record for the most ...

Some consider rats, not to be confused with mice, as pests. Others deem them lifesavers. One African giant pouched rat in Cambodia is making communities safer by sniffing out dangerous explosives—and ...

APOPO has a program where it teaches African giant pouched rats to sniff out the chemicals in abandoned mines and other weapons left behind in periods of war, according to Guinness World Records.

Ronin wakes up before sunrise and, after having sunscreen applied to his ears and tail, he goes to work — and spends12 ...