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Small but gifted: How Tanzania's rats are 'smelling' trouble, saving lives

At the Apopo Detection Rat Training Centre, the rodents are being trained to detect landmines, tuberculosis, trafficked wildlife products and even people trapped beneath collapsed buildings.

Small but gifted: How Tanzania's rats are 'smelling' trouble, saving lives

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Rare blue frog found by 5th grader goes on display in Japan's Sendai

SENDAI -- A rare blue east Japan tree frog found by a fifth-grade boy is on display at Sendai Umino-Mori Aquarium in this city's Miyagino Ward.East Ja

  • Fifth-grade boy Teppei Kamada discovered rare blue east Japan tree frog.
  • Frog exhibited on August 23 at Sendai Umino-Mori Aquarium.
  • Blue color results from abnormality in skin's yellow chromatophores.

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