Scat Dogs Spot Owls
by
Heidi Walters
on
August 16, 2012 at 11:17AM
No, they're not canine masters of jazzy nonsense, crooning in the moonlight. They're the University of Washington's Center for Conservation Biology detection dogs Shrek and Max, who've been trained to sniff out northern spotted owl pellets (the undigested stuff they hack up after a meal) at the bases of trees (and thusly find the owls).