PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A land mine-detecting rat in Cambodia who received a prestigious award for his life-saving duty has died in retirement, the charity for which he had worked has announced. Magawa ...

Ronin in action in a Cambodian minefield. "He's a very hardworking rat," Cindy Fast, head of APOPO's training and research efforts, tells PEOPLE of the group's star landmine-sniffing rodent Since 1979 ...

Magawa, a rat that detected more than 100 landmines during its life, has died in Cambodia. The male African giant pouched rat was eight and had sniffed out explosives for several years before retiring ...

It's 5:45 in the morning, and in a training field outside Siem Reap, home of Angkor Wat, Cambodia's demining rats are already hard at work. Their noses are close to the wet grass, darting from side to ...

A landmine-hunting rat in Cambodia has set a new world record by sniffing out more than 100 mines and pieces of unexploded ordnance, a charity said Friday - Copyright ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A land-mine-detecting rat in Cambodia who received a prestigious award for his life-saving duty has died in retirement, the charity for which he had worked has announced.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A land mine-detecting rat in Cambodia who received a prestigious award for his life-saving duty has died in retirement, the charity for which he had worked has announced. Magawa ...