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In 2013, honeybees were trained to find landmines left by the Balkan Wars; their extraordinary sense of smell was turned into an unusual detection tool
Clarín · eastern europe
A team from a Croatian university carried out the experiment, which was successful. The insects were trained to detect TNT, the component of these weapons.
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