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Eagerly sniffing, Baraka dashes across a stubble field. He can’t see very well, but his sense of smell is extremely well-developed. Because Baraka, a giant hamster rat with an important job to do: find buried explosives. During his work, the rodent is strapped into a small harness that is connected to a long line via a wire. An animal handler dressed in mine protection gear stands at each end of the line. This is because Baraka is running across an area where landmines may be buried. The rat has already found something. He stops, sniffs intensively and scratches the earth a little. This is the…

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