近日的某个清晨,这些非洲巨囊鼠开始搜寻两个存在安全隐患的雷区。两名训导员站在危险区外,两人之间相距约5米,用一条笔直的绳子连着。每只老鼠身上都戴着套索,套索与训导员手中的绳子相连。老鼠们在两名训导员之间的直线区域来回跑动,除了偶尔用细小的前爪擦拭身体,或者上上厕所外,它们会一路不停地嗅着地面。训导员向雷区下方移动,老鼠们又开始重复之前的工作。一只老鼠搜完后,会有第二只鼠复查一遍。
Two-year-old Victoria proved particularly swift — "very active," one team member calls her.
一只名为“维多利亚”的两岁老鼠表现得尤为敏捷——有队员说她“非常活泼”。
At the second field, Merry and Meynard were completing three hours of effort as a midday sun beat down on the parched earth. The duo had earlier nosed in on an explosive, halting just above it and scratching the ground — the learned response when a rodent detects TNT inside a land mine. A deminer with a detector followed and the mine was dug up and detonated.
在另一个雷区,午时的太阳烘烤着炙热的大地,玛丽和迈纳尔德都连续搜了近三个小时了。它们两个早先曾嗅到了一颗炸弹:在炸弹正上方停下来,狂挠地面。这是有经验的鼠在探测到地雷中的炸药成分后做出的常见反应。接下来就会有负责排雷的人带着探测器过来,把雷挖出并销毁。
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