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Tigers Tracked by Their Scat Monday, June 22, 2009 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Biology   
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Hot on the heels of a study that used feces to track penguin populations from space, researchers in India are reporting that DNA from tiger poop can help them estimate the cat's numbers in the wild. The work is a "huge breakthrough" that should help conservationists protect this endangered predator, says Melvin Sunquist, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville. (source: sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
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