Giant rats are being enlisted to help stop the wildlife trade by sniffing out items highly prized by traffickers, including pangolin scales, elephant ivory, rhino horn and African blackwood. African ...

Non-profit APOPO says it has trained rats to sniff out elephant tusks, rhino horns, pangolin scales and other wildlife ...

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“There has also been interest in wildlife detection rats from Singapore and France,” she added. Trialing these research findings in the real world, APOPO last year conducted a proof-of-concept ...