Detecting Danger: Africa's Giant Rats
2019, English. Directed by Herbert Ostwald.
Africa's giant rats – the size of a cat – can be trained to detect land-mines by smelling them. Giant rats are clever and they learn fast. Their sense of smell is better than a dog's, they have more stamina, and they're a lot cheaper to train. This documentary follows "Miss Marple", who was born in a training lab and who goes through a year's training before being sent on her first mission to Mozambique. A shorter version (43 minutes) screened at festivals in 2009 but was never widely released.
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- Released
- 1 January 2019
- Country
- Germany
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- Herbert Ostwald
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Detecting Danger: Africa's Giant Rats (2019) was directed by Herbert Ostwald and stars Andrew Solomon.