India, April 7 -- A five-year-old African giant pouched rat named Ronin has chalked history by becoming the first rodent to detect over 100 landmines, according to a confirmation by the Guinness Book of World Records.

Ronin has found 109 landmines and 15 unexploded ordnance items across Cambodia since 2021. He was trained by Apopo, a non-profit organisation that has spent nearly 30 years training rats to detect landmines. These animals work in a grid system and signal the presence of explosives by scratching the ground.

"This means that Ronin now claims the title of most landmines detected by a rat," said Guinness World Records in a statement. They also praised his "crucial work" in making Cambodia safer.

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