The Southern giant pouched Rat
\nAn intelligent nocturnal
\nHighly trainable so we hear
\nWith an excellent sense of smell
\nSaving lives in Africa
\nWith a marvellous perceptivity
\nFastidious of temperament
\nImpressible and mindful of
\nVital and vivacious
\nA realness and a genuineness
\nAuthentic and meticulous<\/p>\n
Well founded and well grounded
\nAlertness and awareness
\nA level headed shrewdness
\nA breadth of mind that\u2019s sound
\nClick receive banana sweet
\nThe narrative that one can eat
\nThat memory of the moment
\nAn edifying memory
\nHaving the capacity to associate
\nThe mastery<\/p>\n
Taught to smell the TNT
\nExplosive charges
\nOne two three
\nLand mines buried
\nDue to war
\nOn farmlands
\nWhere so many more
\nAre stood on and of course then
\nmaim
\nPeasant farmers
\nSpoils of war
\nMozambique where more and more
\nAmputee\u2019s and tragedy
\nAre now safeguarded thankfully<\/p>\n
One such Rat from Tanzania
\nTrained up by Nico
\nWho has called
\nDear \u201cMiss Marple
\nHer ability
\nOlfactory mapping in her brain
\nAfter months of constant training
\nThe APOPO Lab has in the main<\/p>\n
Happened here a hero rat
\nThat walks the mined fields
\nIdentifying
\nTNT the smell is fixed
\nProfundity of thought relying
\nLives are being saved now daily
\nMetal detectors clear top soil
\nThese champions of consciousness
\nAnd extra sensory perception
\nContinually they toil<\/p>\n
Up and down the mine field margins
\nAwakening their senses they
\nGet a kind of sensuousness
\nMore and more, day after day
\nPosterity they kind of feel it
\nA spore a tread a vapour trail
\nTheir weight of body safe as houses
\nTheir shining light a wizard\u2019s grail<\/p>\n
Man and beast can feed with splendour
\nThe shared knowledge consummately
\nThe soundness of a nocturnal mind
\nCreating a lucidity
\nRational and reasonable
\nAn adaptation unquestionably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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