Magawa
Sign in to savethumb|upright=0.7|A HeroRAT being rewarded with a banana thumb|upright=0.7|Cricetomys gambianus is a species of [[giant pouched rat.]]
Key facts
- Animal.name
- Magawa
- Animal.species
- Southern giant pouched rat
- Animal.gender
- Male
- Animal.birth_place
- Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania
- Animal.death_place
- Cambodia
- Animal.occupation
- Landmine detector
- Animal.employer
- APOPO
- Animal.awards
- PDSA Gold Medal (2020)
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- date of birth
- 2013-11-25
- date of death
- 2022-01-08
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- Early life
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- Retirement and death
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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.