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Detecting Danger: Africa's Giant Rats

2019-01-01 en 52m
Documentary
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.

Writer

Herbert Ostwald

Editor

Jan Stefan Kolbe

Original Music Composer

Mark Joggerst

Director of Photography

Norbert Röttcher

Producer

Uli Veith

Director of Photography

Roland Gockel

landmine wildlife nature

Status

Released

Countries

  • Germany

Companies

  • Taglicht Media