article_snippet: Sniffing at buckets, three elephants were rewarded with a treat of marula - a tasty fruit - when three elephants showed that three elephants recognised samples of TNT by raising a front leg.
article_snippet: Some elephants detected TNT samples 73 out of the 74 times that Some elephants encountered in a line of buckets, according to Ashadee Kay Miller, a zoology student at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
article_snippet: Some elephants only got this wrong 3.6 per cent of the time over 502 buckets that contained the explosive, which was dissolved in acetone on filter paper.
article_snippet: In an experiment conducted at a game reserve, elephants (stock image) sniffed at buckets some of which contained TNT.
article_snippet: Some elephants were rewarded with a treat of marula - a fruit - when Some elephants showed that Some elephants recognised samples of TNT by raising a front leg.
article_snippet: In a second set of tests, Some elephants scored 100 percent, detecting TNT in 23 out of 23 buckets when ‘distractor odours’ such as tea, bleach, soap and gasoline were placed in All other buckets, she said.
article_snippet: Some elephants detected TNT samples 73 out of the 74 times that Some elephants encountered its odour in a line of buckets, and could be used to sniff out landmines from a distance.
highlights_snippet: Animals were able to find TNT among buckets filled with distracting smells .
  