After five years of sniffing out land mines and unexploded ordnance in Cambodia, Magawa is retiring.
The African giant pouched rat has been the most successful rodent trained and overseen by a Belgian nonprofit, Apopo, to find land mines and alert its human handlers so the explosives can be safely removed.
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