title: Teaching giant african pouched rats to find landmines: operant conditioning with real consequences.
abstract: Giant African pouched rats recently have been used as mine-detection animals in Mozambique. To provide an example of the wide range of problems to which operant conditioning procedures can be applied and to illustrate the common challenges often faced in applying those procedures, this manuscript briefly describes how the rats are trained and used operationally. To date, the rats have performed well and it appears they can play a valuable role in humanitarian demining.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Western Michigan University.
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Poling
authors.forename: Bart J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Weetjens
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cox
authors.forename: Negussie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Beyene
authors.forename: Håvard
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bach
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sully