Five "sniffer rats" have been in police training in the Dutch city of Rotterdam, learning how to distinguish between scents - including blood, drugs and explosives.There's video at the link, but wasn't working when I tried it.
The brown rats are due to go into active service next year, operating under the names Poirot, Magnum, Derrick - TV detectives popular in the Netherlands - and Jansen and Janssen, the Dutch names for the bowler-hatted detectives in Tintin.
It means the Netherlands will be the first country to use trained rats in civilian police investigations.
Friday, September 13, 2013
Detective Rat
From the BBC:
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