Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat
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Re: Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat
#2RIP Magawa
Re: Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat
#3I spent the last minute observing in silence, in memory of this remarkable creature. HN sheep, I command thee all, to do the same.
Re: Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat
#4If you visit Siem Reap, you can visit the APOPO visitor centre, and see the rats (and a demonstration!) for yourself. Highly recommended.
Re: Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat
#5I spent the last minute observing in silence, in memory of this remarkable creature. HN sheep, I command thee all, to do the same.
I did. Also, I think i needed this bit of news today.
Re: Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat
#6Stark reminder of how precious and meaningful a life can be - of any creature, no matter how small. We should be nice to all creatures not just humans.
Re: Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat
#7> Magawa retired from bomb sniffing in June 2021 owing to his old age, as is standard for APOPO's HeroRATs.
> He spent a number of weeks mentoring 20 newly-recruited rats before ultimately retiring to a life of "snacking on bananas and peanuts".
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magawa
End to life worthy of being envied.
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#8I don’t like this site’s obsession with reducing everything to market opportunities, but… it’s extremely well documented that land mines, white truffles, cancer, diabetes, chemical weapons, etc can all be ‘sniffed’ by animals and it’s a mechanism that is almost always ‘better’ (cheaper, quicker, more deployable in the field) than human-engineered solutions. Surely there’s some vebture capital opportunity here for better sensors that would unarguably improve our lot more than AI, at least per dollar invested?
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Re: Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat
#10I don’t like this site’s obsession with reducing everything to market opportunities, but… it’s extremely well documented that land mines, white truffles, cancer, diabetes, chemical weapons, etc can all be ‘sniffed’ by animals and it’s a mechanism that is almost always ‘better’ (cheaper, quicker, more deployable in the field) than human-engineered solutions. Surely there’s some vebture capital opportunity here for bet…
Sounds like the obsession of reinventing trains and trees. Surely training a rat is cheaper than a portable real-time NMR device, right?