
thumb|upright=0.7|A HeroRAT being rewarded with a banana thumb|upright=0.7|Cricetomys gambianus is a species of [[giant pouched rat.]]
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thumb|upright=0.7|A HeroRAT being rewarded with a banana thumb|upright=0.7|Cricetomys gambianus is a species of [[giant pouched rat.]]
Magawa (November 2013 – January 2022) was a Southern giant pouched rat (Cricetomys ansorgei) that worked as a HeroRAT sniffing out landmines in Cambodia for the non-governmental organization APOPO (in English, Anti-Personnel Landmines Removal Product Development) which trains rats to detect landmines and tuberculosis. Magawa was the most successful landmine-sniffing rat in the organization's history, and received the PDSA Gold Medal in 2020.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).