The world’s largest rats could help conservationists in the ongoing fight against the illegal wildlife trade.Researchers have ...

The African giant pouched rat is the world’s largest rat, weighing three pounds on average and stretching some two to three feet long, from the nose to the tip of the tail. The nocturnal rodents live ...

“Our study shows that we can train African giant pouched rats to detect illegally trafficked wildlife, even when it has been ...

so it is not reflective of the real world settings where wildlife is commonly trafficked or screened by scent-detection animals. In order to deploy these rats, new methods need to be developed ...

The world’s largest rats could help conservationists in the ongoing fight against the illegal wildlife trade. Researchers have trained African giant pouched rats to pick up the scent of highly ...