Sentences with phrase «scats collected»

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 U of A team then measured stable isotopes and analyzed 230 grizzly bear scats collected over three years, some of which could be attributed to GPS - collared bears.

In field tests, the researchers found that 64 % of the weta scat collected had seeds or seed fragments.

Not exact matches

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.

These specimens, collected from the field or borrowed from museums, included bits of hair, bone, skin and scat.

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.

To get a better idea of the genetic health and connectivity of jaguar populations in this area and the effectiveness of the existing wildlife corridors (i.e., stretches of habitat that facilitate movement between local populations), the researchers turned to DNA obtained from field - collected jaguar scat.

Take a black Lab mix, for example, that helps marine biologists collect orca scat in Puget Sound by sniffing it out up to a nautical mile away.

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.

«We've got this concept of what snow leopard scat looks like and where it can be found, so we think we can go out and collect it.

The snow leopard samples were most often confused with red fox scat, which comprised 39.6 percent of collected samples.

Weiskopf explained that a big problem with collecting and identifying scat in the field is that researchers mostly rely on morphological characteristics such as shape, size or associated signs of snow leopards, and since scat from different species can look similar, this can lead to misrepresented population estimates and errors in reporting what the snow leopards are actually eating.

Overall, only 36.1 percent of collected scats thought to be from snow leopards were confirmed as snow leopard.

Collecting the scat, recording locations and correlating the DNA can provide information on an individual fox's movements in a way that is noninvasive to the individual animal.

The predominance of local vegetation in collected scat suggests little movement among habitat types between feeding sessions, indicating that the polar bears are keeping energy expenditure down.

For example, citizen scientists from local Sherpa communities set up camera traps, collect scat for DNA analysis, and help put radio collars on the the cats.