Last year, African giant pouched rats like Carolina prevented nearly 400,000 new cases of a deadly disease. It's possible because of their extreme sense of smell. Carolina, an African giant ...

The Future of Wildlife Crime Detection With the illegal wildlife trade estimated at $7–23 billion annually, the stakes are high.The deployment of African giant pouched rats could be a game ...

The African dormouse, also known as a micro squirrel, is a tiny rodent that looks a lot like a very small squirrel with some ...

The African giant pouched rat has an exceptional sense of smell and is a social and intelligent animal that can be trained.

Scientists are training the first generation of rats in Tanzania to detect illegal wildlife trafficked products. Their research shows that African giant pouched rats can locate concealed wildlife ...

Perhaps the most puzzling question Jared Diamond encounters as he investigates animal domestication is: Why were no large mammals ever domesticated in tropical Africa? Africa, south of the Sahara ...

The fat-tailed jird, a small North African rodent with a distinctive club-shaped tail, is a convenient research subject and an emerging model for Old World leishmaniasis. The authors present the ...

Certain species of amphibians and reptiles easily regrow limbs after losing them in times of danger, but tissue regeneration is much more limited in mammals. Now, researchers describe a species of ...