USING TRAINED POUCHED RATS TO DETECT LAND MINES: ANOTHER VICTORY FOR OPERANT CONDITIONING

We used giant African pouched rats (Cricetomys gambianus) as land mine-detection animals in Mozambique because they have an excellent sense of smell, weigh too little to activate mines, and are native to sub-Saharan Africa, and therefore are resistant to local parasites and diseases. In 2009 the rat...

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Main Authors: Poling, Alan, Weetjens, Bart, Cox, Christophe, Beyene, Negussie W, Bach, Harvard, Sully, Andrew
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: The Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 2011
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3120071/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21709791
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1901/jaba.2011.44-351
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