Rat in the service. Bashny.Net

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Unexploded landmines remain a serious problem throughout the world. Furthermore, demining is a very dangerous and costly. But Bart Weegens, Belgium has found a solution - a trained opossum. In taming the animal it takes about a year. Using Pavlov's achievements in rats produce a stable connection smell of explosives and reward - bananas and peanuts. "The gray men" provide a head start over the rest of the technology and the animals that were used to clear the area of unexploded mines, as Rat unlike the trained dog, even stepping on a mine, because of the small weight will not cause detonation of the charge; Yes and no shortage of new recruits is because female opossum carries up to ten litters per year. The process itself is very simple - the rat (for the guarantee of finding all mines in the same area to work consistently to three individuals) with povodyrёm combing certain area and found the charge sits on top of legs and scratches. Next, people already neutralizes the charge.