Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Poop-sniffing dog may help save the whales


San Juan Island, Washington – A dog named Tucker with a thumping tail and a mysterious past as a stray on the streets of Seattle has become an unexpected star in the realm of canine-assisted science.

He is the world’s only working dog, marine biologists say, able to find and track the scent of orca scat, or feces, in open ocean water – up to a mile away, in the smallest of specks.

Through dint of hard work and obsession with an orange ball on a rope, which he gets to play with as a reward after a successful search on the water, Tucker is an ace in finding something that most people, and perhaps most dogs, would just as soon avoid.  More

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