Detecting Danger: Africa's Giant Rats
52 mins
Africa's giant rats – the size of a cat – can be trained to detect land-mines by smelling them. Giant rats are clever and they learn fast. Their sense of smell is better than a dog's, they have more stamina, and they're a lot cheaper to train. This documentary follows "Miss Marple", who was born in a training lab and who goes through a year's training before being sent on her first mission to Mozambique. A shorter version (43 minutes) screened at festivals in 2009 but was never widely released.
Andrew Solomon
Narrator
Roland Gockel
Director of Photography
Norbert Röttcher
Director of Photography
Jan Stefan Kolbe
Editor
Mark Joggerst
Original Music Composer
Uli Veith
Producer
Bernd Wilting
Executive Producer