The giant pouched rat is large compared to other kinds of rats.

与其它鼠相比，非洲巨鼠的体型非常大。

But APOPO decided that giant African pouched rats were best equipped to help clear landmines because of their African roots and lifespan of up to eight years.

但APOPO组织认为，非洲巨鼠最适合帮助清除地雷，因为它们的非洲背景，而且其寿命最长可达8年。

Speaking of the African pouched rat, Szott said the rat ambassadors will show, " just how smart they are and how we can co-exist with them."

在谈到非洲巨鼠时，索特说，鼠大使将会证明“它们有多聪明，以及我们如何与它们共存。”

In addition to human de-miners, the group has trained 15 Gambian pouched rats, a larger rat than many people have seen.

除了人工排雷外，这个组织已先后培训了15批冈比亚巨鼠，这些巨鼠比常见的鼠大得多。

McElligott says that the pouched marsupials offer up a whole new set of possibilities for understanding the evolution of social cognition.

麦克埃尔利格特表示，袋鼠为理解社会认知的发展提供了全新的可能性。

Szott added that she thinks giant pouched rats will be used at ports and airports in the future and may replace dogs to smell for explosives and drugs.

索特补充说，她认为未来巨鼠将会被港口和机场，并可能会取代狗来闻爆炸物和毒品。

APOPO said that African giant pouched rats have found more than 150,000 landmines.

APOPO表示，非洲巨鼠已经发现了超过15万枚地雷。

Runa is the giant pouched rat at the San Diego Zoo.

鲁纳是圣地亚哥动物园里的一只巨鼠。

Giant African pouched rats are used to detect old landmines in the country of Cambodia.

非洲巨颊囊鼠被测柬埔寨境内的旧地雷。

How happy the birds are all summer and some of them all winter; how the pouched marmots drive tunnels under the snow, and how fine and brave a life the slandered coyote lives here, and the deer and bears!

鸟儿整个夏天多么快乐，有些鸟儿整个冬天多么快乐；有袋土拨鼠如何在雪下开隧道，被诽谤的土狼、鹿和熊在这里过着多么美好和勇敢的生活！

So, African giant pouched rats, like Ronin, have been trained to sniff out the chemicals of these weapons and uncover them without any harm being done to themselves or their human handlers.

因此，像罗宁这样的非洲巨颊囊鼠经过训练，能够嗅出这些武器的化学成分， 并将其揭露出来， 而它们自身及其人类处理者都不会受到任何伤害。

Researchers say the giant African pouched rat has learned to detect elephant ivory and other goods from at-risk species and also can sniff out landmines and detect tuberculosis in mucus samples.

研究人员表示，非洲巨颊囊鼠已学会识别象牙及濒危物种的其他制品，还能嗅出地雷并检测痰液样本中的肺结核。

Not even my mom with her failing heart, who used to bring me garden blooms she carried pouched in her Alice-blue apron.

甚至我那心脏衰弱的母亲，以前还会把我喜欢的花朵装在蓝色围裙的口袋里带给我。

And the reason they train giant African pouched rats to sniff out landmines is because they are so light, they can scamper across the ground without setting the landmines off.

训练非洲巨颊囊鼠嗅地雷的原因在它们体重极轻，能在地面上轻快奔跑而不触发地雷。