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A new study in the journal Scientific Reports gets to the bottom of it: Why do dogs that are trained to locate poop sometimes find the wrong kind of poop?
[...] In her own work, DeMatteo has successfully used scat-detection dogs to identify the routes traveled by endangered pumas and other reclusive carnivores along a biologically important corridor in Argentina.
Detection dogs are great at determining the presence of specific animals because they can find droppings hidden in grass, droppings that have been rained on and disintegrated into the mud -- or even droppings that have been eaten and then recycled.
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180914100433.htm
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(Score: 2) by crafoo on Saturday September 22 2018, @03:01PM (5 children)
Is there any animal better than a dog? It's kind of amazing how awesome they are.
I watched the secretary of DHS oversee local police search cars before a ferry boarding. They were explaining How they use the dog to search under the vehicles, and how they occasionally have to hide something for the dogs to find, otherwise they get discouraged and stop looking.
(Score: 5, Informative) by maxwell demon on Saturday September 22 2018, @05:07PM (3 children)
Depends on the intended task. If you want an animal that carries you over a long distance, a horse should be a better choice.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @12:54AM (2 children)
What I really want is a giant chicken I can ride around on.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @03:59AM (1 child)
A dragon - especially one that flies.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday September 23 2018, @04:03AM
That's not your normal flamebait...
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by dry on Monday September 24 2018, @02:25AM
Well pigs are better at sniffing out truffles then dogs, they're also pretty smart, so perhaps better.