Animals Helping Animals: How Dog Detectives Can Help Save Endangered Species

Abstract

Dogs are working alongside humans to help protect animals in the wild that are endangered. People who work in the field of animal conservation can train dogs to use their powerful noses to sniff out where certain endangered species have been. Dogs help their human handlers by finding the scat (poop!) that members of an endangered species have left behind. Scat contains important information about these species that help us preserve their populations. In this article, you will learn why some animals are endangered, why studying scat is so important, and how teams of dogs and humans can work together to find scat.