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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: rare carnivores + scat sniffing + scat  Related to the article below (Last Update: 5/5/2008)


Canada.com
Meeting your meat
Canada.com, Canada - May 2, 2008
It's a rare pig, after all, that gets a life of garden scraps and whey before it ends up on a breakfast plate. To consume meat ethically, the new carnivores ...
Many births prove zoo's success
Joburg, South Africa - Apr 30, 2008
According to Dominic Moss, the curator of carnivores, fennecs are the smallest of all the world's foxes. "They have long, thick hair that insulates them ...

Deccan Herald
Hills of holy beauty
Deccan Herald, India - Apr 29, 2008
Home to charismatic carnivores like the tiger, leopard, hyena and dhole, these forests are a repository of wildlife wealth. Walks along the many game trails ...
A meat lover's guiltless haven
Vancouver Sun,  Canada - Apr 17, 2008
Michael Atkinson is proof that carnivores can be "green." As the co-owner and executive chef at Lava Steakhouse in Maple Ridge, he's a dedicated carnivore, ...

The Japan Times
In the carnal realm of Sin
The Japan Times, Japan - May 1, 2008
Main courses run from around ?2500, though serious carnivores will want to check out the mixed grill (?4200 for two). Wash it all down with a bottle of one ...
Arizona rabies cases this year could break record
Arizona Republic, AZ - May 3, 2008
Arizona's surging population and increase in the number of pets providing prey for carnivores have been factors in the state's soaring rabies cases, ...

Mongabay.com
Saving the world's most recently discovered cat species
Mongabay.com - Apr 10, 2008
That was it -- my first interest in carnivores. Jo and I went back to the UK when the project was over but we knew we wanted to go back to Borneo study this ...
Dogs and diet
Pembroke Daily Observer,  Canada - Apr 8, 2008
Confused in Houston DEAR CONFUSED: Dogs, although classified as carnivores, can eat many of the same vegetables and fruits as humans - making them somewhat ...
Outdoors: Sliders are misunderstood turtles
Bowling Green Daily News,  United States - Apr 19, 2008
Red-eared sliders have a lifespan not much shorter than our own, and while they begin life predominantly as carnivores, later in life their diet consists ...
SLIGHTLY ASKEW | Pop goes the weasel
Campbellton Tribune, Canada - Apr 16, 2008
Politicians couldn't become such experts without direct contact with small low-slung carnivores. Did you ever notice that ministers of the Crown never ...
Source: Google News

Dietary separation of sympatric carnivores identified by molecular analysis of scats -
LE Farrell, J Roman, ME Sunquist - Molecular Ecology, 2000 - Blackwell Synergy
... M, Davenport B (1999) Noninvasive DNA sampling using scat sniffing dogs ... faeces:
morphological versus molecular methods for surveying rare carnivores from their ...

Molecular testing of observer identification of carnivore feces in the field -
LR Prugh, CE Ritland - Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2005 - bioone.org
... versus molecular methods for surveying rare carnivores from their ... Dietary separation
of sympatric carnivores identified by ... DNA sampling using scat sniffing dogs ...

[PDF] US Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station
C BERKELEY - fs.fed.us
... Scat-Sniffing Dogs Detecting Rare California Carnivores BERKELEY,
Calif.?Scientists at the US Forest Service Redwood Sciences ...
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Detection and accuracy rates of dogs trained to find scats of San Joaquin kit foxes (Vulpes macrotis … -
DA Smith, K Ralls, A Hurt, B Adams, M Parker, B … - Animal Conservation, 2003 - Cambridge Univ Press
... Use of scat detection dogs combined with faecal ... is a promising technique for studies
of rare and endangered ... Ethics and the study of carnivores: doing science ...

A Comparison of Noninvasive Techniques to Survey Carnivore Communities in Northeastern North America -
ME GOMPPER, RW KAYS, JC RAY, SD LAPOINT, DA BOGAN, … - Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2006 - bioone.org
... such as the use of scat-sniffing dogs (Smith et ... never detected bobcats, which are
presumably rare in ADK ... generally is confined to larger carnivores (Karanth and ...

Detection dogs push the limits of field-monitoring techniques
J Brown - Conservation in Practice, 2005 - Blackwell Synergy
... us a lot about an endangered or rare animal ... habitat connection?or a dead end?for
these four carnivores. ... in DNA testing of nontarget sympatric red fox scat. ...
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[PDF] Food habits of a re-introduced river otter (Lontra canadensis) population in Western New York-annual …
M Skyer - 2006 - ritdml.rit.edu
... summer (80%) and fall (60%) but was rare in winter ... Scat-sniffing dogs are also used
to study tigers, cougars ... otters' could be added to this list of carnivores. ...

[BOOK] The Behavior Guide to African Mammals: Including Hoofed Mammals, Carnivores, Primates
R Estes - 1992 - books.google.com
... effort went into seeking out rare or glamorous ... Some of the other featured carnivores,
nota- bly ... tified as "author's observations"), are scat- tered through the ...

[PDF] The use of livestock guarding dogs to protect sheep and goats from large carnivores in Slovakia
R Rigg - Unpublished report. The Slovak Wildlife Society, 2002 - carnivorecology.free.fr
... 3.1. Scat analysis ... LGDs are especially appropriate when rare, endangered and
legally protected carnivores are causing damage to livestock. ...

[BOOK] The Carnivores
RF Ewer - 1998 - books.google.com
... To this day, the aroma of baking bread reminds me of Griff." Griff was one of those
rare individuals with ... THE CARNIVORES Zoological Research at the National Zoo ...

Source: Google Scholar

Scat sniffing dogs detecting rare California carnivores

BERKELEY, Calif.—Scientists at the U.S. Forest Service Redwood Sciences Lab and University of Vermont found scat sniffing dogs might be the best way to confirm the presence of rare carnivores in forested areas like the Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains.

In 2003 and 2004, they compared the ability of dogs, remote cameras and hair snares to detect fishers, bobcats and black bears at 168 sites throughout Vermont. Dogs had the highest detection rate for targeted species and were the most cost-effective, according to findings published last summer in The Journal of Wildlife Management.

U.S. Forest Service scientists with the Pacific Southwest Research Station used detection dog teams from the University of Washington’s Center for Conservation Biology last summer to study a Pacific fisher population in the Sierra National Forest. The study will help determine how efforts to reduce wildland fire risks there might affect the animal.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has ruled the fisher’s listing under the Endangered Species Act as warranted, but precluded because of other priorities and a lack of funds.

Land managers often have difficulty detecting forest carnivores because they tend to be elusive, solitary and on the go. Common methods for confirming a species at a site include using remotely-triggered cameras and barbed wire snares that snag hair. Both methods require the use of bait that can lure animals away from their typical range.

Scientists involved in the Vermont study, led by Robert A. Long, found detection dogs were three and a half times more successful at detecting species than cameras, the second best method. The dogs also only needed one visit per site to ensure a high probability of detection, an important consideration when long distances, difficult terrain and complex land ownership make research challenging.

“Right now, dogs bring the most bang for the buck, compared to passive survey methods like snares and cameras,” said Bill Zielinski, a Redwood Sciences Lab research ecologist and one of the study’s authors.

Zielinski hopes one day scat detection dogs might be trained to find many of the rare carnivores in a given area. These surveys could aid land management decisions because carnivores are a barometer of ecosystem health and many are particularly sensitive to human activity. Scientists can use scat to determine stress levels, learn what animals are eating and identify individuals through DNA.

Successful scat detection dogs tend to be high-energy mutts, with an excessive play drive. Often, they were difficult pets left at shelters. Handlers reward the dogs by playing tug of war with a favorite toy.

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To view The Journal of Wildlife Management scat study, click on: http://www.wildlifejournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.2193%2F2006-292

 
 
 
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