The Rat With a Gold Medal Meet Magawa. An African giant pouched rat. Trained in Tanzania. Sent to Cambodia in 2016. He sniffed out 39 landmines. Plus 28 unexploded bombs. He cleared 225,000 square meters of land. In 2020, the UK gave him a gold medal. He weighed 2.6 pounds.
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