Sentences with phrase «scat study»

«Jaguar scat study suggests restricted movement in areas of conservation importance in Mesoamerica: Noninvasive genetic survey on wild Mesoamerican jaguars is largest of its kind, reveals conservation priority.»

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When the SCAT2 was issued, superseding the original SCAT published in 2005, the authors recommended continued reliance on the SAC until prospective studies could be conducted to assess the SCAT2's sensitivity (how good the test is in identifying athletes with concussion; for example, a test which is very sensitive will have few false negatives, rarely missing those later found to have concussion) and specificity (a test with high specificity will have few false positives, rarely mis - classifying people without concussion as having concussion).

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Another study confirmed it: one in five coyote scats contained domestic cat.

The sea lions switched to leaner market squid, shortbelly rockfish and other less - common prey such as mackerel and hake, according to new studies of their scat.

«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.

While studying snow leopard scat is one of the least invasive ways to look at what the animals are eating and gauge their food preferences, according to a new UD study it may not always be the most accurate.

«It's a little bit of conjecture, but our thought is that a lot of food habit studies that have not been able to verify that their scat is actually from the species that they're studying probably do have this bias soaking in from other species,» said McCarthy.

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.

In order to create effective conservation programs to help protect and conserve populations of endangered snow leopards, whose estimated population is between 4,500 - 7,500 in the wild, University of Delaware researchers are studying their scat to try and understand what the large cats are eating.

For instance, kindergarten teacher Susan Friend had no idea where to get skunk scat and fox urine to attract the animals that her class hoped to study for their scent stations project (see below).

To study the location and movements of wolves and jackals in Kyrgyzstan, CJ trained her rescue border collie, Mara, to find wolf and jackal scat.

Both the English Village and Wisconsin studies report the percentage of birds returned as a portion of the «total catch,» whereas Fitzgerald reports percentage by frequency (i.e., the occurrence of birds in the stomach contents or scats of free - roaming cats).

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.»

As for cannibalism, I was able to quantify the proportion of scats with polar bear remains (i.e., cannibalism) and compare it to a similar study done in the 1960's.

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.

The dogs were trained by University of Washington's Center for Conservation Biology and were tasked with sniffing out tiger scat, which was then studied by scientists to learn more about the dwindling tiger population in the Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia.