Recently, detection dogs have been utilized to collect fecal samples from cryptic and rare mammals. Despite the great promise of this technique for conservation biology, its broader application has been limited by the high cost (tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars) and logistical challenges of employing a scat-detection dog team while conducting international, collaborative research. Through an international collaboration of primatologists and the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, we trained and used a detection dog to find scat from three species of unhabituated, free-ranging primates, for less than $3,000. We collected 137 non-human primate fecal samples that we confirmed by sequencing taxonomically informative genetic markers. Ou...
The difficulty of collecting occurrence and population dynamics data in mammalian populations of low...
Abstract: We report the development and application of a method using domestic dogs (Canis familiari...
The bush dog (Speothos venaticus), a small and rarely seen canid from Central and South America, has...
Scat-detection dogs have been used to locate feces of rare and elusive species across tropical biome...
Detection dogs, specially trained domestic dogs (Canis familiaris), have become a valuable, noninvas...
Detection dogs, specially trained domestic dogs (Canis familiaris), have become a valuable, noninvas...
Many carnivores require large ranges to meet their ecological and energetic needs; however, anthropo...
Accurate data on presence/absence and spatial distribution for fauna species is key to their conserv...
Population estimates using genetic capture–recapture methods from non-invasively collected wildlife ...
<div><p>Collection of scat samples is common in wildlife research, particularly for genetic capture-...
Rapid global large carnivore declines make evaluations of remaining populations critical. Yet landsc...
Nature conservation often faces the problem that many species are difficult to monitor. This is espe...
Collection of scat samples is common in wildlife research, particularly for genetic capture-mark-rec...
Collection of scat samples is common in wildlife research, particularly for genetic capturemark- rec...
Over the last century, dogs have been increasingly used to detect rare and elusive species or traces...
The difficulty of collecting occurrence and population dynamics data in mammalian populations of low...
Abstract: We report the development and application of a method using domestic dogs (Canis familiari...
The bush dog (Speothos venaticus), a small and rarely seen canid from Central and South America, has...
Scat-detection dogs have been used to locate feces of rare and elusive species across tropical biome...
Detection dogs, specially trained domestic dogs (Canis familiaris), have become a valuable, noninvas...
Detection dogs, specially trained domestic dogs (Canis familiaris), have become a valuable, noninvas...
Many carnivores require large ranges to meet their ecological and energetic needs; however, anthropo...
Accurate data on presence/absence and spatial distribution for fauna species is key to their conserv...
Population estimates using genetic capture–recapture methods from non-invasively collected wildlife ...
<div><p>Collection of scat samples is common in wildlife research, particularly for genetic capture-...
Rapid global large carnivore declines make evaluations of remaining populations critical. Yet landsc...
Nature conservation often faces the problem that many species are difficult to monitor. This is espe...
Collection of scat samples is common in wildlife research, particularly for genetic capture-mark-rec...
Collection of scat samples is common in wildlife research, particularly for genetic capturemark- rec...
Over the last century, dogs have been increasingly used to detect rare and elusive species or traces...
The difficulty of collecting occurrence and population dynamics data in mammalian populations of low...
Abstract: We report the development and application of a method using domestic dogs (Canis familiari...
The bush dog (Speothos venaticus), a small and rarely seen canid from Central and South America, has...