“We bring it in a cage… animal learns to stick the nose… then the animal learns to find the target smell in a cage with several holes… then animals learn to find real mines in real minefields”

TED Radio Hour · The shocking power of tiny things

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Train rats to detect landmines by progressively increasing task difficulty: single scented hole → multiple holes → leash-walk in open → real minefields

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