The British celebrate the rat “Ratty” as a hero. With its fine nose, the little rodent averted tragedy.
Exhausted from cancer therapy, Caroline Davis fell asleep with a cigarette on the second floor of her Peterborough home. Meanwhile her husband was upstairs. But then the 61-year-old’s dressing gown caught fire.
“I felt my legs scratching and finally woke up,” says the British woman, “I saw the fire and ripped my bathrobe off my body. If it wasn’t for ‘Ratty’ we would have lost our home, maybe even our lives. “
Rats are excellent sniffers
“Ratty” wouldn’t be the first rodent with a good nose. “They have thousands of times more olfactory receptors on their nasal mucosa than we do,” Dr. Richard Zink of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Comparative Ethology at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna. That is why rats are also used as explosive sniffers.
Source: Krone
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