{"id":17165,"date":"2020-09-25T22:24:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T03:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=17165"},"modified":"2020-10-04T17:20:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T22:20:37","slug":"likes-snacking-on-bananas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/25\/likes-snacking-on-bananas\/","title":{"rendered":"likes snacking on bananas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Magawa<\/a>
Magawa wearing his gold medal from the People\u2019s Dispensary for Sick Animals, a British charity, on Friday. Credit: PDSA, via Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

amazing article<\/a> about Magawa, an African giant pouched rat, who detects mines and explosives in Cambodia, and just won (deservedly!) a gold medal for his work: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He can search an area the size of a tennis court in 30 minutes, whereas a person with a metal detector would usually take four days to search an area of that size. When he finds a mine, he signals to his handler by scratching at the earth above it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

AND:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Described by Malen, his main handler, as friendly and hard working, Magawa has a work-life balance that is likely the envy of many a human. \u201cHe is very quick and decisive,\u201d Malen said in a statement provided by People\u2019s Dispensary for Sick Animals, \u201cbut he is also the first one to take a nap during a break.\u201d<\/p>

When he is not in the minefield, the two-foot-long rat likes snacking on bananas, peanuts and watermelons, and taking a spin on the running wheel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

PS CONTINUED APOLOGIES FOR THE GRUESOME GOYA-ESQUE PHOTOGRAPHS, THIS BLOG IS BROKEN BUT SO IS MY BRAIN SO I CAN’T DEAL WITH CALLING YAHOO BUT I SWEAR I WILL, SOON<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

amazing article about Magawa, an African giant pouched rat, who detects mines and explosives in Cambodia, and just won (deservedly!) a gold medal for his work: He can search an area the size of a tennis court in 30 minutes, whereas a person with a metal detector would usually take four days to search an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17165"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17185,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17165\/revisions\/17185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}