A Rat has, for the first time, won a British
charity's top civilian award for animal bravery, receiving the honour for
searching out exploded landmines in Cambodia.Magawa, a giant African pouched
rat, was awarded the PDSA's Gold Medal for his "Life saving bravery and
devotion" after discovering 39
landmines and 28 items of unexplored ordnance (explosives) in the past seven
years.
Magawa was trained by a Belgian organization
that has taught rats to find landmines for more than 20 years.Magawa is the
group's most successful rat, having
cleared more than 1,41,000sq metres of land, the equivalent of about 20
football fields.
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