Steven Belmain
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They're actually used a lot in disease screening as well.
So tuberculosis is a big problem throughout the developing world.
These rats can smell the TB in a patient's putum sample.
But they're tiny little heads and tiny little brains.
But we must remember, these are not ratus either.
So in our premise that ratus disappears, the hero rats would carry on.
I mean, talking about, again, rats and their intelligence and also affection and everything, people have trained rats to drive little cars.
And they've shown that they don't just drive to get to the destination.
A lot of infrastructural damage is caused by many of these other rodent species that we haven't got rid of.