Yup, you are reading this correctly. These rodents are being trained to help sniff out landmines.  This is a baby African pouch rat. He smells out a dummy landmine in Tanzania. Once these rats are trained they will be able to clear a 200 square foot minefield in about an hour and a half. This is much faster than a human and so far they have helped to re-open over 2 million square miles of land in Mozambique.