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Rats help find mines
[ 2006-05-15 10:08 ]
Lola sniffs the face of a police animal trainer at a police school in Sibate, Colombia, May 3, 2006. Lola is at the top of her class of risk-running rodents being trained to sniff out landmines in Colombia, home to the world's highest number of mine-related deaths and injuries last year. The smartest rat among the first six that the government is teaching to locate explosive devices planted by leftist rebels, she has a 90 percent success rate in locating explosive material in her laboratory training maze. (Reuters)
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