Question Your World: Can Rats Be Taught to Be Heroes?
Posted: June 25, 2021
Magawa, an African giant pouch rat, just retired from his job of sniffing out land mines. In the last five years, the rodent has detected 71 land mines and 38 other potentially dangerous battle leftovers strewn across the Cambodian landscape. So, how does a rat identify that many land mines? With a little help from some operant conditioning, of course!
Can rats be taught to be heroes? We went searching for the answer. Click below to hear what we found.
