Rats don’t always have the best reputations, but a rat called Ronin with a super sense of smell is working to change that.

Ronin the African giant pouched rat set a new world record for the most landmines detected by a rat. Guinness World Records gave the distinction to Ronin on World Rat Day, which fell on Friday.

Ronin, a specially trained rat deployed to Cambodia, has helped locate more than 100 anti-personnel landmines littered around ...

Ronin, an African giant pouched rat, has discovered 109 landmines and 15 items of unexploded ordnance scattered across ...

PHNOM PENH, April 6, (Xinhua): A mine-sniffing rat has earned a Guinness World Records title for sniffing more than 100 ...

Five-year-old Ronin has been named the most successful Mine Detection Rat (MDR) in the organisation's history. "His ...

Between August 2021 and February 2025, Ronin uncovered 109 landmines and 15 other pieces of unexploded ordnance in a region close to Siem Reap in Cambodia, according to Guinness World Records.

A giant African pouched rat named Ronin has broken the Guinness World Record for discovering landmines in Cambodia.

An African giant pouched rat is being honored in the record books after detecting more than 100 landmines and other ...