Cambodia recently honored an unusual hero with a 7-foot statue. Magawa, an African giant pouched rat, is being celebrated for detecting more than 100 land mines, a feat that likely saved countless lives. With his acute sense of smell, Magawa—who died in 2022—was trained to sniff out the chemical compound in explosives and signal to his handler when he found something. He could search a field the size of a tennis court in less than half an hour, a job that could take a human with a metal detector several days. Cambodia has one of the world’s highest concentrations of unexploded land mines, left over from the Vietnam War (1954-75) and later conflicts. Magawa’s statue serves two purposes, according to Michael Raine, who works for a nonprofit group that trains animals to detect mines. “It was a good way to remember him,” Raine told The Washington Post, “and also remind people in a nice way that there’s still a mine problem here in Cambodia.”