Bart Weetjens: How I taught rats to sniff out land mines

About this film

At TEDxRotterdam, Bart Weetjens talks about his extraordinary project: training rats to sniff out land mines. He shows clips of his "hero rats" in action, and previews his work's next phase: teaching them to turn up tuberculosis in the lab.

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TED.com

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TEDTalks;TEDxRotterdam 2010;TED;Talks;Africa;animals;technology;war;2010

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