# Bart Weetjens: How I taught rats to sniff out land mines

At TEDxRotterdam, Bart Weetjens talks about his extraordinary project: training rats to sniff out land mines. He shows clips of his "hero rats" in action, and previews his work's next phase: teaching them to turn up tuberculosis in the lab.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2010
- Runtime: 12 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: War, Education, Science, Nature
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/BartWeetjens_2010X)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/BartWeetjens_2010X?play=1)