Reuters Photo:

Caption: “A Gambian giant pouch rat receives [sic] sniffs out an anti-personnel mine in a minefield near the Mozambican town of Vilancoulos, November 9, 2004. The rats are trained from an early age to associate the scent of explosives with a food reward and indicate the suspected presence of explosives by grooming and scratching the earth. (Howard Burditt/Reuters)”