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Hero Rats Are Making News Around the World!

Submitted by Kirsten Spainhower on Wed, 09/08/2010 - 16:37

Check out the story CNN is featuring on Hero Rats today. In the early days of the project Bart Weetjens of Apopo, the Dutch Company that implements Hero Rats, said that initially “Every where I went to apply for funding, we were just laughed at.” But in 2003 the Development Marketplace took his idea seriously and funded his project. Now Hero Rats are making news around the world.

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Great solution. Maybe we can

Submitted by Dewita on Thu, 09/16/2010 - 19:12.

Great solution. Maybe we can train and deploy those rats roaming around the city of Jakarta in Indonesia? Or rats in Washington DC. Since rats are light and easy to train.

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