Ronin, a 5-year-old African giant pouched rat, has found 109 land mines and 15 other unexploded ordnances in Cambodia ...

That’s where rats come in; their high intelligence, speed and keen sense of smell make them adept at identifying explosives. They are also too light to ... including heavy bombing by the US ...

Scrambling across tree trunks over streams, we hack through heavy undergrowth with machetes ... allowed to hunt in the secondary forest, mostly rat moles, bush pigs and duiker," Mougou says.

A rat named Ronin has set a new Guinness World Record by detecting 109 land mines in Cambodia over the last four years.