You Know EVERYTHING About Being a Rat, Isn't That True, Mr. Hill?

Henry Hill didn't mean THIS kind of rat. The New York Times says that Gambian giant pouched rats are picking up the slack in the hunt for land mines--provided you breed them in captivity. For the price of a few bananas and peanuts, they'll sniff around all day, and their olefactory sense is keen enough to locate buried disasters-in-waiting. Their size--three pounds--also works to their advantage: unlike dogs, they don't weigh enough to set the mine off.

One small drawback: they don't like working on Mondays. Imagine that.