"Hero rat" being rewarded wth banana at the APOPO training base in Morogoro, Tanzania.

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APOPO trains rats (on the campus of the University of Sokoine in Morogoro Tanzania) for various humanitarian purposes including de-mining and medical use most notably the detection of TB in human sputum samples.

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Size: 3600px × 5400px
Location: Tanzania
Photo credit: © Eric Nathan / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: apopo, banana, eat, food, grasp, hand-fed, hand-feed, hero, rat, rats, reward, tanzania, training