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The famous mine-sniffing rat, who won a gold medal for his heroism, will not be forgotten. The world's first statue dedicated to a mine-sniffing rat has been erected in Cambodia.
A rodent named Magawa has sniffed out more than a hundred mines and other explosives in the Asian country.
In Cambodia, a giant hamster rat has been honored with a statue more than two metres high – no joke. The action has a serious background.
This is the statue inaugurated by the Government of Cambodia in honor of Magawa, a giant rat famous all over the world for its "heroism" in detecting anti-personnel mines in the Asian country for five years. While it remained active, Magawa located more than 100 landmines and other explosives on an area of more than 141,000 square meters, the equivalent of 20 football fields, as the Government of Cambodia has explained in a statement published o…
The Belgian humanitarian organization Apopo specializes in training rats to detect mines and tuberculosis.
12:22 Magawa, an African giant hamster rat trained by the Belgian NGO Apopo to detect landmines, has been given a statue in Cambodia.
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