Me in collapsed building, seeing a rat with a backpack:
HOLY SHIT; NIMH IS REAL!?
They can also train turtles to do ninjitsu.
They should train them to bring down a little can on a string so you can talk to them 😂
I mean, you joke, but you couod probabky kit them out with a small Bluetooth earbud to pass off.
Could you imagine? You’re trapped after an earthquake, and convinced you’re going to die, and a little rat comes up, and you begin to get scared he’s going to chew on your face, but he hands you a Bluetooth earpiece, and scurries off to get his treat. You pop it in your ear, and your rescuers are on the other end!
I’d want to meet that rat when it was over. Give him an entire granola bar.
They also can detect mines and have been highly successful in saving countless limbs/lives in that field too(no pun intended). https://apopo.org/?v=0b3b97fa6688
Thanks for the link. This is really cool work! Search and pre-rescue rats are a small part of what Apopo does: they mostly do unexploded mine clearance and tuberculosis detection! 😳
Now if only we could get that rat past Israeli blockade 🇵🇸
What’s in the backpack?!
C4
Cheese
sounds like it’s a gps transponder
Probably something other than gps, because that doesnt work when under a bunch of rubble. Well thats what i assume because gps doesnt even work inside uncollapsed buildings.
It’s some kind of tracker regardless, more info and action pics(!) here: https://apopo.org/innovation-2023/?v=7885444af42e
Some sort of signal emitter maybe? So the rescue team knows to look where the hero rat triggered it.
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There’s also those huge rats they train to find landmines… rats are truly under appreciated.
My cats, in the meantime: train themselves to know when humans dispense food, everything else be damned!
Took me a sec to get that the #womaninstem wasnt referring to the rat lol
Gotta love a heroic snotpest
#Hero Snot Pests
