Rats Trained To Sniff Out Bombs, Mines

Rats Trained To Sniff Out Bombs, Mines
POSTED: 8:39 am EDT April 21, 2006
UPDATED: 8:47 am EDT April 21, 2006
BOGOTA, Colombia. -- Police in Colombia are training Lola and Espejo, two whiskered, red-eyed rats, to sniff out bombs and land mines.

The rodents are part of an experimental six-rat squadron that police are preparing for dangerous missions to defuse the more than 100,000 land mines that litter Colombia's countryside after four decades of war between the government and leftist rebels.
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Unlike dogs, rats weighing less than half a pound each and "don't trigger any explosions when they walk on a mine," said Col. Javier Cifuentes, director of the Sibate police academy, where basic training is taking place.

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