A dog on Prince of Wales Island is helping to conserve wolves by tracking their poop
From krbd.org:
Barley’s professional title is “canine conservationist.” This summer, the former shelter Border Collie was searching the woods on the outskirts of Craig, Alaska, for wolf poop.
“Biologists love poop. It’s a huge part of our job,” said Barley’s owner, Kayla Fratt.
Fratt is a dog trainer and Ph.D. student at Oregon State University. She trains dogs, like Barley, to help solve mysteries – less like Scooby Doo and more like conservation mysteries. Fratt said that before they came up to Alaska, she and Barley had hunted jaguar scat in Guatemala and, more recently, tracked down bird and bat carcasses on wind farms in the Midwest.
