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Training rats to save lives (no joke) in Tanzania, with Georgies Mgode from Apopo
Category: Business
Duration: 00:34:24
Publish Date: 2017-04-11 22:00:34
Description:

Humans are good at a lot of business functions, but one where animals have got us beaten is at sniffing things out.

Rats have the best sense of smell of all mammals and can detect landmines and turburculosis to a much higher accuracy and in a fraction of the time of the best detection technology that humans can manage.

Apopo trains rats from birth and then sets them out to do the job of detecting things which humans struggle at.

Georgies and I discuss the applications of Apopo rats, the school program that they go through and how it’s easier to train the Giant African Rat rather than a dog.

This one is a lot of fun and so I hope you enjoy.

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https://theeastafricabusinesspodcast.com/2017/04/12/rats-training-rodents-for-humanitarian-purposes-with-georgies-mgode-from-apopo/
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