Sam Wasser’s team has trained dogs to search for the poop of rare
animals. Here, a dog named Mason finds maned wolf dung in Brazil.
Credit: Matt Baker
3 comments:
Jahan
said...
This was amazing. This guy was so smart and would actually study poop. The dung must say a lot of the animal that secreted it. This was very interesting because I learned a lot about poop studying, and that would be useful if I were to become a scientist that would study poop. I helps and it is easier to get and study the dung rather than capture the animal, stress it out, take some blood, and that might even harm the animal. All in all, I thought that this article was incredibly informative and also was very interesting on how the poop said so much about the animal it was secreted from.
Disgusting but cool. I really liked the part about the dung beetles. I knew that you could find samples of what animals ate in poop, but I never thought you could measure the hormones. Also, if the animal is very rare, its poop would be easier to find. I wonder if you could tell an animal's feelings from its dung. This article was really cool. I loved how it introduced poop in a whole new way.
This is actually really awesome. I never knew that science behind poop could be this interesting, or even telling. Apparently, finding a piece of poop tells you nearly everything about that particular animal. That's pretty cool. I have always thought that dung beetles are interesting, that their life basically revolves around poop. They form poop into ball that they roll and "dance" on. They also go on dung in order to cool their feet from the hot ground. What thought of immediately when the page said Hades flower was that it was connected to Greek myths, which it is. At least I think it is. The scientist said that the flower grows underground and the actual blossom comes out above ground. Hades, the god of the underworld, live underground in the underworld, and comes up once in a while to visit Zeus and once to kidnap Persephone. I also though that the Moa would be a really awesome bird to have here. I thought that hearing about the bird with whisker like feathers that spread pollen is pretty cool. Overall, this was pretty awesome.
3 comments:
This was amazing. This guy was so smart and would actually study poop. The dung must say a lot of the animal that secreted it. This was very interesting because I learned a lot about poop studying, and that would be useful if I were to become a scientist that would study poop. I helps and it is easier to get and study the dung rather than capture the animal, stress it out, take some blood, and that might even harm the animal. All in all, I thought that this article was incredibly informative and also was very interesting on how the poop said so much about the animal it was secreted from.
Disgusting but cool. I really liked the part about the dung beetles. I knew that you could find samples of what animals ate in poop, but I never thought you could measure the hormones. Also, if the animal is very rare, its poop would be easier to find. I wonder if you could tell an animal's feelings from its dung. This article was really cool. I loved how it introduced poop in a whole new way.
This is actually really awesome. I never knew that science behind poop could be this interesting, or even telling. Apparently, finding a piece of poop tells you nearly everything about that particular animal. That's pretty cool. I have always thought that dung beetles are interesting, that their life basically revolves around poop. They form poop into ball that they roll and "dance" on. They also go on dung in order to cool their feet from the hot ground. What thought of immediately when the page said Hades flower was that it was connected to Greek myths, which it is. At least I think it is. The scientist said that the flower grows underground and the actual blossom comes out above ground. Hades, the god of the underworld, live underground in the underworld, and comes up once in a while to visit Zeus and once to kidnap Persephone. I also though that the Moa would be a really awesome bird to have here. I thought that hearing about the bird with whisker like feathers that spread pollen is pretty cool.
Overall, this was pretty awesome.
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