Paralympian gold medal-winning fencer, Piers Gilliver MBE, gives his brother Miles some pointers, ahead of the latter’s performance as the sword-wielding King Rat in Birmingham Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker,
12th. Dec. 2022
Paralympian gold medal-winning fencer, Piers Gilliver MBE, gives his brother Miles some pointers, ahead of the latter’s performance as the sword-wielding King Rat in Birmingham Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker,
12th. Dec. 2022
Magawa is a giant pouched rat, trained to detect landmines by charity APOPO. He has discovered 39 landmines and 28 items of unexploded ordnance to date, making him the charity’s most successful HeroRAT. During his career he has helped clear over 141,000 square metres of land (the equivalent of twenty football pitches), making it safe for local people.
Magawa was formally presented with his unique miniature PDSA Gold Medal the animal equivalent of the George Cross via a live link between Cambodia and the UK today (25 September 2020) by the vet charity’s Director General. He is the first rat in the charity’s 77 year history of honoring animals to receive a PDSA Medal joining a line-up of brave dogs, horses, pigeons and a cat.
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Black Rat - Rattus rattus - caught in trap. This is the rat that is a vector of Plague. Hand-coloured engraving published Edinburgh 1838 in William Jardine 'Naturalist's Library' series.
