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Sniffing Out Error in Detection Dog Data

posted by mrpg on Saturday September 22 2018, @11:17AM   Printer-friendly
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MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for Fnord666

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @12:54AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @12:54AM (#738708)

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @03:59AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @03:59AM (#738756)

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    • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday September 23 2018, @04:03AM

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