A tale of geckos and wolves: How Avery Tilley weaves his heritage into science

From Research.UGA.edu:

When Avery Tilley was pursuing his undergraduate degree at Michigan State University, he worked on a gray wolf research project tied to the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Ojibwe) in northeastern Minnesota.

In addition to collaring wolves to track their movements, Tilley assessed their health through blood samples and other veterinary treatments. Most research teams simply gave the wolves identifying numbers before release to aid tracking, but Tilley and his group used an alternate identification method: Ojibwe names.

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