Eight giant African pouched rats were able to detect four wildlife samples from 146 non-target items during this four-year ...

“Our study shows that we can train African giant pouched rats to detect illegally trafficked wildlife, even when it has been ...

F orget fictional Rodents of Unusual Size – for wildlife traffickers, there are real life giant rats to be feared, after ...

A recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Conservation Science reveals that African giant pouched rats could play ...

The African giant pouched rat is the world’s largest rat, weighing three pounds on average and stretching some two to three feet long, from the nose to the tip of the tail. The nocturnal rodents live ...

A little girl playing with her friend in Luzhou, in the Chinese Province of Sichuan, was joined by a giant rat which climbed inside her blouse in a spine-chilling moment ...

The intelligent rodents have a particularly keen nose and have been previously trained to detect landmines and tuberculosis.

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

Most of us are familiar with the vest-clad beagle that hunts for illegal fruits and plants in the travelers' luggage at ...

Your support makes all the difference. The world’s largest rats could help conservationists in the ongoing fight against the illegal wildlife trade. Researchers have trained African giant ...

Trialing these research findings in the real world, APOPO last year conducted ... acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). African giant pouched rats have an average lifespan of around eight years ...

The world’s largest rats could help conservationists in the ongoing fight against the illegal wildlife trade. Researchers have trained African giant pouched rats to pick up the scent of highly ...