Magawa the rat, who was awarded a gold medal for his heroism, retired from his job detecting landmines.
In a five-year career, the rodent sniffed out 71 landmines and dozens more unexploded items in Cambodia.
Magawa was trained by the Belgium-registered charity Apopo, which is based in Tanzania and has been raising the animals - known as HeroRATs - to detect landmines since the 1990s. The animals are certified after a year of training.
Magawa was awarded the PDSA Gold Medal - sometimes described as the George Cross for animals - for his "life-saving devotion to duty".
He was the first rat to be given the medal in the charity's 77-year history.
He weighed 1.2kg (2.6lb) and is 70cm (28in) long.
Magawa was capable of searching a field the size of a tennis court in just 20 minutes.
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