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Contributing to the cause, Kamba African Rainforest Experiences allow the volunteers to stay in their accommodation lodges. Dr Frank on a previous trip to Mozambique. / Supplied Dr Frank and the team ...
Examples are cane rats, Nile tilapia and African catfish in west and central Africa, cavies (guinea pigs) in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and bamboo rats in southeast Asia. High-reproducing ...
A game-changing discovery in West Africa has revealed that humans lived in tropical rainforests at least 150,000 years ago, challenging previous assumptions about early human habitats. The discovery, ...
What's more, while many rats in the agroforests carried the disease, not one of the rats captured in the rainforest was infected. These findings demonstrate how human land use impacts infection in ...
Addis Ababa, April 6, 2025 (E NA)— A mine-sniffing rat has earned a Guinness World Records title for sniffing more than 100 landmines and items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Cambodia, charity APOPO ...
What’s more, while many rats in the agroforests carried the disease, not one of the rats captured in the rainforest was infected. These findings demonstrate how human land use impacts infection in ...
Conservationists are battling a planned highway through the Aberdare National Park. They say it threatens rare species and the water supply for Nairobi. The Kenyan government plans to construct a ...
A landmine-detecting rat in Cambodia has set a new world record to become the first rodent to uncover more than 100 mines and other deadly war remnants. Ronin, an African giant pouched rat, has ...
the oldest secure evidence for habitation in African rainforests was around 18 thousand years ago, and the oldest evidence of rainforest habitation anywhere came from Southeast Asia at about 70 ...
Ronin, an African giant pouched rat (Cricetomys ansorgei), has achieved the distinction of being the most successful Mine Detection Rat (MDR) in the organization's history, the news release said.
HeroRAT Ronin, an African giant pouched rat, has earned a Guinness World Records title as the most successful mine-detection rat. Guinness World Records Managing Editor, Adam Millward, praised the ...