Military published the best engineers in the world

Many people know that in the search for mines, bombs, drugs help trained dogs, but few know that this "work" is used rats.





The first to use rats as the sappers began in 1996 Bart Weetjens, which was founded for this purpose my company. This unusual step helped to make the terrible statistics of deaths due to minutes after all, the ordnance die is not a small number of people.

And then Bart decided to apply as seekers min huge Gambian opossum. The name of these marsupial animals has received for huge cheek pouches.





Gambian rats live in many parts of Africa and are well adapted to local conditions. They can quickly multiply resistant to disease. And what is really important to train them easily. Moreover, "the gambians do" for a long time live and can work for a long time. But their main advantage is that wonderful smell!





The company Bart works not only in Mozambique. Other countries of the Black continent, where in recent years, affected by armed conflicts, also showed interest in the new way of mine. There was a time when the idea of Witjens laughed, considering it useless. These doubts were refuted.

It turned out that rats can be trusted with such a serious matter as finding the min and no wonder now the Gambia four-legged "engineers" are called heroes.

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