Smells like . . .
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- May
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They have bomb-detecting dogs and seeing-eye dogs and, believe it or not, moose-poop sniffing dogs. From a story in today’s New York Times about moose returning to and gaining a hoof-hold in the Adirondacks:
“To better understand their lifestyle and behavior, the Wildlife Conservation Society sent specially trained dogs into the piney woods here recently, not in search of actual moose, but their scat, or excrement.”
Here’s a story out of Washington state about “scat-tracking dogs.”
“These pooches – which can identify poop deposited by such creatures as wolves, fishers and even whales – are moving from Seattle to the University of Washington’s 4,300-acre Pack Forest.”
Whales? How does that work?
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