Sentences with phrase «scat samples»
Of 120 scat samples found by searching the «cat area» of Hawkins» study site, «65 percent were found to contain rodent hair and 4 percent feathers.»
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Of the 120 scat samples found by searching the cat area, «65 % were found to contain rodent hair and 4 % feathers.»
The researchers analyzed 199 suspected snow leopard scat samples collected from two study sites in Tajikistan during the summer of 2012 and 56 scats collected from two study sites in Kyrgyzstan between June and December of 2005.
The analysis, published in the journal PLOS ONE, is based on nearly 450 jaguar scat samples collected in Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico.
Currently, researchers at the Museum Zoology, UM are comparing the successful mammal detection from guts of blowflies collected in forest with mammals detected in cage traps, mist nets, camera traps, hair traps and scat samples.
The researchers were able to get brown bear genotypes for 55 percent of all the salmon carcasses sampled for saliva, compared to 34 percent for the scat samples.
It costs the researchers roughly $ 370 per bear to genetically identify individual animals using scat samples; the cost with saliva samples dropped to $ 118.
Not exact matches
They bagged 58 samples of tiger scat and hustled these to the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore.
They also swabbed a total of 272 brown bear «scats,» or fecal samples, from those same locations.
It's become routine in wildlife biology to identify animals through the DNA in hair samples and scat.
This work used material as diverse as the gut contents of the seals and the fish, through seal «scat», to samples taken from commercial catches and research vessel surveys, and elaborate mathematical models.
Dogs can distinguish the scat of 18 different species, detect samples from great distances on land and sea, and search much faster and more thoroughly than humans.
«Our recent work has demonstrated that we can determine what mammals are in a protected area without hunting, without trapping, without the use of scat or hair samples, and especially without camera traps - all of which are problematic methods for one reason or another,» said study author Mark Siddall, a curator in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology.
They analyzed the DNA profiles from hair, scat, and tissue samples collected in Bulgaria and found seven individuals — from three different mountainous regions — that had genetic patterns unlike the rest.
Wasser's group then searched for a match between the ivory and elephant populations in Africa, using a database based on scat and tissue samples collected across the continent.
The snow leopard samples were most often confused with red fox scat, which comprised 39.6 percent of collected samples.
We characterized the current terrestrial diet of polar bears in western Hudson Bay by evaluating the contents of passively sampled scat and comparing it to a similar study conducted 40 years ago.