Thursday, August 10, 2006

Even rats are more useful than cats

Gambian rodents risk death for bananas - World - www.theage.com.au

OK this is not a new story. The link above is an article a year old about how mine clearance rats were being trained in Africa.

The reason for the post is that on the BBC news site there is currently a video showing the mine clearing rats in action. (I can't link directly to the video window, it seems, so you just have to look for it on the video link.)

Have a look at the size of the rats. They are huge! Still sort of cute, although I guess at some size that adjective becomes inappropriate.

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