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Originally released on the French label Isabel in 1979 as The Blues Giant, in France and the U.K., but with alternate covers. [clarification needed] It was first released in the U.S. in 1981 by Alligator Records (retitled Stone Crazy!). It was released in Brazil in 1988 (with an alternate cover).
Non-profit APOPO says it has trained rats to sniff out elephant tusks, rhino horns, pangolin scales and other wildlife products that are trafficked out of Africa. How giant rodents could rat on ...
Giant pouched rats are only distantly related to the true rats, although until recently they had been placed in the same family, Muridae. [1] Recent molecular studies, however, place them in the family Nesomyidae, part of an ancient radiation of African and Malagasy muroids. The name "pouched rat" refers to their large cheek pouches. The ...
Eight giant African pouched rats were able to detect four wildlife samples from 146 non-target items during this four-year study.
A HeroRAT being rewarded with a banana Cricetomys gambianus is a species of giant pouched rat.. Magawa (November 2013 – January 2022) was an African giant pouched rat (Cricetomys ansorgei) that worked as a HeroRAT sniffing out landmines in Cambodia for the non-governmental organization APOPO (in English, Anti-Personnel Landmines Removal Product Development) which trains rats to detect ...
OMG! Even with the name 'African Giant Rat,' I was absolutely floored to see a rodent that big.Valerie is the size of a small dog! She was the perfect size to fit in Anna's arms while the two said ...
Papagomys is a genus of very large rats in the tribe Rattini of the subfamily Murinae, with body masses of 600–2,500 grams (1.3–5.5 lb). [1] It contains two species, which are known only from the Indonesian island of Flores: [2] Flores giant rat Papagomys armandvillei
The Cambodian government is training giant rats to detect land mines after seeing the results of a similar program done in Africa. Bart Weetjens started the Belgian nonprofit APOPO, to train ...