Picture taken 24 June 2005 shows, one of

Chimoio, MOZAMBIQUE: Picture taken 24 June 2005 shows, one of the nine African rats, sniffing out a landmine in Chimoio, Mozambique. Twelve years after the end of a brutal civil war, Mozambique is still dealing with a "critical situation" from landmines in areas where more than one million people live. Apopo, a Belgian de-mining research group train rats and there handlers, saying that the animals have a highly developped sense of smell, are easy to tame and train and cheap and easy to maintian. AFP PHOTO / Alexander JOE (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER JOE/AFP via Getty Images)