WUNC

In March Mammal Madness, Our Money's On The Giant Pouched Rat

Forget basketball. March Mammal Madness may be more thrill-packed than the NCAA's version of March Madness. Sure, basketball players can jump. But can they jump like the giant pouched rat, which leaps ...
Mongabay News on MSN

In memory of the Christmas Island shrew

By Rhett Ayers Butler It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar. Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, ...
WESA

In March Mammal Madness, Our Money's On The Giant Pouched Rat

Sure, basketball players can jump. But can they jump like the giant pouched rat, which leaps 5 feet in the air? Not only that, the mega-rodent, weighing in at around 3 pounds, can sniff out land mines ...
WGBH

In March Mammal Madness, Our Money's On The Giant Pouched Rat

An African giant pouched rat sniffs for traces of land mine explosives at a training facility run by APOPO, a nonprofit that trains the rats to detect both tuberculosis and land mines. Not only does ...