I had all kinds of rats, mice, hamsters, gerbils, squirrels.

There, the animal finds a mine.

When you use a mouse, your hand is down here on the mouse pad.

'These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,

'These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,

These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,

These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,

In the next step, animals learn to find real mines in real minefields.

There is nobody on the planet who knows how to make a computer mouse.

My favorite being, Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female, but not the male.

And it turns the mouse into Mighty Mouse it makes it fearless, so it runs out in the open, where it'll be eaten by a cat.

Bart Weetjens How I taught rats to sniff out land mines

And the rat would just keep pressing that bar thousands and thousands and thousands of times.

Then the animal learns to walk on a leash in the open and find targets.

And you can see this PET scan of a mouse what we call a pet PET.

Using the mouse

A cornered rat will bite a cat.

The only exception is the naked Somalian mole rat, which never puts its nose above the surface of the ground.

The African ground squirrels collaborate and are not aggresive to other mammals.

And also in mice and mice are mammals like us.

So watch this kangaroo.

Panning with the mouse

Zooming with the mouse

Browsing with the mouse

Keyboard and Mouse

Razor Mouse Configurator

Configure X11 mouse

Hamster Indicator

The Lemmings of QE

The Mouse Click that Roared

The cat ate the rat.

I used to study mice. When I studied mice, I used to talk really slowly.

Well, actually rats are, in contrary to what most people think about them, rats are highly sociable creatures.

We chose rats.

Mouse Touchpad

A dog runs after a cat, and the cat after a mouse.

The cat caught the rats.

The cat is eating the mouse.

Tom likes squirrels.

I'm calling it robust mouse rejuvenation, not very imaginatively.

Anyone here lucky enough to share, to cohabit with a mouse a domestic partnership with mice?

And I was a guinea pig, as I hope to continue to be in every new form of prosthetic limbs that come out.

There's a number of mines placed blindly, and the team of trainer and their rat have to find all the targets.

At TEDxRotterdam, Bart Weetjens talks about his extraordinary project training rats to sniff out land mines. He shows clips of his hero rats in action, and previews his work's next phase teaching them to turn up tuberculosis in the lab.

The really, truly interesting thing about this is that we can't take these obese mice and make them lose more weight than what the normal mouse's weight is supposed to be.