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In Angola, I visited 'HeroRats' that have been trained to sniff out land mines (and, in some countries, diagnose tuberculosis). In a day, they can clear 20 times as much of a minefield as a human, and they work for bananas!

Nicholas Kristof

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In Angola besuchte ich „HeroRats“, die darauf trainiert wurden, Landminen ausfindig zu machen (und in einigen Ländern Tuberkulose diagnostizieren). An einem Tag können sie 20-mal so viel Minenfeld wie ein Mensch räumen und arbeiten für Bananen!

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