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@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-26 20:42:11

🐀 Land mines and tuberculosis are no match for Tanzanian 'hero rats' sniffing out danger and disease
phys.org/news/2025-09-tubercul

Land mines and tuberculosis are no match for Tanzanian 'hero rats' sniffing out danger and disease
A man lies unmoving, slumped in the rubble of a simulated earthquake, as an unlikely rescuer approaches: a rat with a backpack. Whiskers waving, the rat breezes past garbage, toppled furniture and scattered clothes to find him and pull a trigger on its pack, alerting searchers above.

@darkrat@chaosfurs.social
2025-09-25 16:14:01

it me
#rats

a small young rat, wearing a collar with an ID tag with a photo of the rat
@darkrat@chaosfurs.social
2025-08-04 14:55:06

Source: #rats

Comic panel. A cartoon rat with a headset and keyboard asking "Have you tried *chewing* on the wires?"