Mice do not always have the best reputation, but rodents called Ronin and their super smell works to change them.
Ronin and a set of landmines create a good impression of rodents by saving innocent civilians from hidden explosives.
The African giant mouse recently established a new world record for more land mines discovered by mice.
Between August 2021 and February 2025, Ronin discovered 109 mines and 15 other ammunition plays that were not detonated in an area near Sim Genie in Cambodia, according to the Guinness newspaper.
“Ronin’s achievements are evidence of the amazing capabilities of mice,” said its pioneering coach in the publication publication.
Earth mines are a big problem in old conflict areas.
The explosive weapons, hidden on the ground, are designed to injure or kill anyone.
In Cambodia alone, they caused more than 65,000 deaths and injuries since the fall of the Khmer Red regime in 1979, according to LandMine and Cluster Municipal Monitor.
The use of landmines is controversial because there are no warnings about their location, as well as the threat they represent for decades after the end of conflict, murder and distortion and made it difficult to develop lands in war areas.
Explosions are also very difficult and dangerous in their discovery.
This is the place Mice; High intelligence, speed and sharp smell makes them followers of explosives.
It is also very light that does not spark land mines. It is a decisive work.
It is estimated that 110 million mines are still buried in more than 60 countries around the world.
In 2023, land mines caused 5,757 victims worldwide – 37 % of them participated in children, according to LandMine Monitor for 2024.
Ronin is one of more than 100 mice in Abuo to discover the smell of explosive chemicals and indicates the Earth’s mines of their treatments.
The mice are very useful and also trained to discover tuberculosis in medical environments, which helps prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
The Belgian team of Snifers Snifers Cooors can search for an area the size of the tennis court in 30 minutes – which will take up to four days to a mineral detection residence.
Ronin, 5 -year -old, was born in Tanzania, much larger than mice joint appreciation. It is more than 60 cm in length – Almost the length of the cat – Weighing 1.2 kg, according to APOPO.
Breha Province in Cambodia, where Ronin has been highlighted, is one of the largest intensity of the world mines in the world after decades of conflict in the twentieth century, including US heavy bombings during the Vietnam War.
The United States launched 2.7 million tons of ammunition – including retail and experience – in a four -year bombing campaign in Cambodia. So as not to explode a quarter of the pumps, which means that they have been active and dangerous, but out of view, according to the 2019 US Conference Research Service report.
Despite the years of its disappearing efforts, there are still about 4 to 6 million unequal land mines in Cambodia, Abu Pubu said.
Ronin claims the global record in Magawa, an other mouse trained by APOPO, which set 71 ground mine and 38 pieces of non -topical ammunition during his five years of service. Magawa died in Salam in January 2022.
