.Posted on 07/16/2017 6:32:58 AM PDT by ptsal
[snip] Victoria, a 2-year-old rat, sniffs for TNT, sticking her nose high in the air to indicate she's found some. She works her way down a 10-meter line with a handler on either end, and is able to detect the presence of TNT at a distance of approximately half a yard.
[Yes, the article is from 2015]
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It would be interesting to see these critters deployed at the border or in NYC and Chicago.
If only they could train lawyers to do this, people wouldn’t be as upset when a land mine killed a critter sniffing for it.
I was thinking Dems
I always thought that marching a flock of sheep across the suspected area would be effective. Think of the visual. It would be a Monty Python skit come alive.
In Africa they do the same thing for initial detection of tuberculosis.
the patients all call cough onto a growth medium plate and in a couple days the rat races is by all of the plates lined up in a single-file.
The rat stops when it smells a positive plate.
“It would be interesting to see these critters deployed at the border or in NYC and Chicago.”
They’re already there. Rats have been in those cities for years. There’s the Clinton packs in New York. And the Obama packs in Chicago. Both have infested the world.
rwood
Know a family of Cambodian out here. Multi gen. They have told me stories about farm animals and landmines. And sadly, people too. They visit there every year, bringing charity.
Beat me to it.
That’s an interesting application.
I wonder if aflotoxin could be detected?
“Rats?
Send Pelosi and Schumer. Tell them it’s Dancing With the Stars and that they are to do a jitterbug in every minefield.
The Muslims just drive herds of goats and camels across minefields. It works just dandy for anti-personel mines.
The father of South African golfer Gary Player worked in a gold mine, 10,000 feet underground. The miners used to share their lunch with the rates to keep them alive and in place. The rats could detect well in advance when a section of the mine was about to collapse. When the miners saw the rats fleeing, they scrambled onto the elevator to get out. Rats were like the “canary in the coal mine” except the rats usually survived.
Sniffing for welfare cheats?
That is a big rat!
My wife would faint.
“The Muslims just drive herds of goats and camels across minefields. It works just dandy for anti-personel mines.”
Except during the Iraq-Iranian War when Iran used mass formations of kids on motor bikes ... all was well since each kid had a medallion guaranteeing him a place in Paradise ...
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I remember Saddam Hussein doing it with young children during his interminable war with Iran.
Nancy is going to pound some sense cents into those Republicans.
The GOPe taking cents, while the Demoncrats that gazillions.
Maybe we need to use our ‘Dem. RATS’ to do the same...
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