These feces-finding Fidos help save orcas and other endangered wildlife
Story Date: 12/23/2020

 

Source: Starre Vartan, CNN, 12/10/20

Barrel-chested, with the pointy ears of a much larger pooch swiveling above her mellow gaze, Eba is more than just the Very Good Dog she appears to be. She's a professional, working the prow of a moving speedboat, carefully tracking the very particular scent of killer whale poop floating in Puget Sound. But she doesn't work alone. "It's a three-being team," said Deborah Giles, a dog handler with Conservation Canines and a biologist at the University of Washington in Seattle.

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