GeoBeatsNews2013.5.21---训练蜜蜂来探测爆炸物

GeoBeatsNews2013.5.21---训练蜜蜂来探测爆炸物
Honeybees are trained to detect explosives. Scientists are trying to train honeybees to see if they can detect landmines. By training the insects to identify food with the smell of explosives, researchers in Croatia are hoping they can use the bees to detect the presence of left over land mines from the Balkan Wars. 90 thousand landmines were reportedly placed randomly across the country of Croatia, and since 1991, 25 hundred deaths have been caused by landmine explosions. Usually dogs or rats are used to find the unexploded landmines, but sometimes they set off the explosions themselves due to their weight. Using the bees would allow the mines to be removed rather than explode. Rats have successfully cleared many landmines in parts of Africa. African pouched rats have proven to be effective at smelling the TNT explosives used in landmines. The rats are trained from a young age for nine months using food reward techniques when they correctly identify the presence of TNT.
训练蜜蜂来探测爆炸物。科学家们正在试图训练蜜蜂，看看他们是否能探测地雷。 通过培养昆虫识别炸药气味的食物，克罗地亚的研究人员希望他们可以利用蜜蜂检测是否存在左90万地雷从巴尔干战争的地雷。 据报道，随机放置的克罗地亚全国各地，自1991年以来，25个地雷爆炸已造成死亡。 一般狗或老鼠被用来发现未爆炸的地雷，但有时他们爆炸掀起自己由于自己的体重使用的蜜蜂将允许被移除，而不是爆炸的地雷。 大鼠已经成功地清除了许多在非洲部分地区的地雷。 非洲巨鼠闻所用的TNT炸药已经被证明是有效的。地雷。 对大鼠进行训练，从一个年轻的年龄为9个月，用食物奖励技术时，他们正确地识别存在的TNT。