Sniffer 'hero rats' saving lives in minefields and labs by Otto Bakano Mon Nov 8, 12:24 pm ET .MOROGORO, Tanzania (AFP) – A baby rat in a tiny red and black harness twitches its pointed nose incessantly, probing a grassy field where it is being trained by a pioneering Belgian NGO to smell out deadly landmines. Other rats trained under the same scheme have already helped clear large swathes of land in neighbouring mine-infested Mozambique. Babette, the two-month-old baby, walks unsteadily across the weedy patch followed by two trainers rolling a bar that teaches her to go back and forth...