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NGO that trains landmine- and tuberculosis-sniffing rats
APOPO is a registered Belgian non-governmental organisation and US non-profit which trains southern giant pouched rats and technical survey dogs to detect landmines and tuberculosis. They call their trained animals HeroRATs and HeroDOGs. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: APOPOA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Toby Curtis : Unfinished BusinessThe most-reprinted book on the subject
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- Go sideways: Gambian pouched ratA closely related topic
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- 📕Toby Curtis : Unfinished BusinessToby Curtis, Lorraine Berridge McLeod · 2022
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