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By collecting thousands of scat samples, the scientists have learned much about mandrill diet.
(The video accompanying my article delves into the art of tracking wolverines and collecting hair and scat samples).
If hair and scat samples contain high-quality DNA, they can also reveal the identity of individual wolverines or lynxes and thereby help us to count animals and to learn the sex ratio in a sub-population.
Altogether, the dogs identified 1914 caribou, 1175 moose, and 327 wolf scat samples, Wasser's team reports this week in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
Fish remnants were found present in 91.9% of the scat samples.
Scat samples were amplified four to ten times per locus to circumvent inferring non-complete genotypes [37].
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Here we undertook a large-scale methodological study to assess scat sampling effort required to detect five mesocarnivore species in a Spanish Mediterranean area.
However, many other studies did not report any findings of beaver remains in the scat sampled.
By surveying four representative sample areas totalling 1994 km2 of the Bangladesh Sundarbans, we collected 440 suspected tiger scat and hair samples.
Snow had lured her friends out for more skiing, but she was happy to be tracking wolverines again, and, despite the snow cover, she found more scat and hair samples.
A dozen volunteers had come to learn how to track the animal's prints and collect scat and hair samples as a part of an effort called Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation.
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