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In China’s Chongqing, Police Squirrels Can Now Sniff out Drugs

重庆警方培训的缉毒松鼠上岗

Sniffer dogs in China now have competition.

中国的缉毒犬现在有竞争对手了。

Police in the southwestern city of Chongqing have successfully trained a batch of drug-sniffing squirrels, which they claim may perform even better than their canine colleagues.

西南部城市重庆的警察成功训练出一批胜任缉毒任务的松鼠，警方表示这些松鼠的表现可能比它们的警犬同事还要好。

According to domestic media reports, a police dog brigade in Chongqing has trained six squirrels that are now ready to take on even the most complicated of tasks, such as those in warehouses full of packages, tight corners, and even “places that are high up,” areas that drug sniffing dogs traditionally have trouble searching.

据国内媒体报道，经重庆的一个警犬大队训练，6只缉毒松鼠已经准备好上岗，其工作甚至包括最复杂的缉毒任务，比如在堆满包裹的仓库，狭小的角落，甚至是“高处”搜毒，以往这些地方是缉毒犬难以搜索的。

The trainer also said that once they detect drugs, the squirrels will scratch the suspicious object in question to alert its handlers.

这名训导员还说，一旦发现毒品，松鼠就会通过抓挠可疑物体来告诉训导员。

On social media, a video of the drug sniffer squirrels went viral Tuesday, gaining hundreds of thousands of views and likes. Some users even joked that the small rodents might be easier to maintain than dogs.

周二，一段有关这批缉毒松鼠的视频在社交媒体上走红，获得了数十万的浏览量和点赞。一些网友甚至开玩笑说，这些松鼠可能比狗好养。

In China, which enforces a zero-tolerance attitude toward drugs, multiple dog species are used to sniff out drugs in metro stations, warehouses, borders, and other places.

在实施毒品零容忍政策的中国，有多种品种的犬在地铁站、仓库、边境等地方执行缉毒任务。

The government even initiated a research project on drug crimes in 2017, which highlighted new techniques to train more types of animals in keeping drugs at bay.

中国政府甚至在2017年启动了一个关于毒品犯罪的研究项目，重点探索新型训练方法，让更多种动物参与缉毒任务。

Since 2018, China has solved over 140,000 drug crime cases nationwide, with more than 9,900 drug manufacturing and trafficking gangs being shut down. About 93 tons of contraband have been seized, primarily through the narcotics police and detection dogs.

自2018年以来，全国共破获了14多万起毒品犯罪案件，打掉9900多个制毒贩毒的团伙，主要通过缉毒警察和侦查犬的努力，查获了约93吨违禁品。

“A squirrel’s sense of smell is quite acute. It’s just that we now have more sophisticated methods of training them,” Yin Jin, who trained the new batch of sniffer squirrels, told domestic media.

“松鼠的嗅觉是相当灵敏的！只是以前我们在训练啮齿动物方面技术不太成熟。”这一批缉毒松鼠的训导员尹劲告诉国内媒体。