In the 1950s, neuroscientist Curt Richter demonstrated how the act of rescuing wild rats from a swim challenge could instill ...

African giant pouched rats have been trained to sniff out illegal animal parts like elephant tusks and rhino horns to catch ...

Now, new unlikely heroes may come to the rescue: rats. New research finds the rodents could be trained to sniff out endangered plants and animals! The May 2024 World Wildlife Crime Report from the ...

African giant pouched rats have been used to detect explosives and are being trained for search and rescue operations ...

APOPO is also training “rescue rats” to potentially save lives. The work was published Wednesday in the journal Frontiers in Conservation Science. The researchers worked with 11 rats ...

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 ...