{"id":148870,"date":"2022-10-25T16:25:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T21:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/rats-with-backpacks-will-be-the-savior-of-earthquake-survivors"},"modified":"2022-10-25T16:25:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T21:25:08","slug":"rats-with-backpacks-will-be-the-savior-of-earthquake-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/rats-with-backpacks-will-be-the-savior-of-earthquake-survivors","title":{"rendered":"Rats with backpacks will be the savior of earthquake survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tuShm833KW8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re tiny but have a knack for saving human life.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian non-profit organization APOPO trains rats to help earthquake survivors. Called RescueRATs, these rats are preparing to save those under the earthquake debris with their high-tech backpacks on their backs.<\/p>\n<p>As CNN reported, \u201cRats are typically quite curious and like to explore \u2014 and that is key for search and rescue,\u201d says Donna Kean, a behavioral research scientist and leader of the project. She also adds that they train rats because they have a good sense of smell and can easily fit into small spaces.<\/p>\n<p>How are the rats trained?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>HeroRATS\/Instagram.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/rats-with-backpacks-will-be-the-savior-of-earthquake-survivors\">Continue reading \u201cRats with backpacks will be the savior of earthquake survivors\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They\u2019re tiny but have a knack for saving human life. The Belgian non-profit organization APOPO trains rats to help earthquake survivors. Called RescueRATs, these rats are preparing to save those under the earthquake debris with their high-tech backpacks on their backs. As CNN reported, \u201cRats are typically quite curious and like to explore \u2014 and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}