| Autor: |
Laurie Marker, Katherine Forsythe, Eli H. Walker, Leanne Van der Weyde, Claudia Wultsch, Lorraine K. Boast, Anne Schmidt-Küntzel, Birgit Braun, Bettina Wachter, Rox Brummer |
| Rok vydání: |
2018 |
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Noninvasive techniques hold many potential advantages including limiting capture and handling stress in wild animals. Scat (feces) samples provide a geophysical landmark and are a biological source for a range of biomedical and ecological questions. The cheetah’s low densities lead to difficulties to study them in the wild, including challenges to find scat samples. Use of professionally trained scat-detection dogs can substantially increase the effectiveness of scat searches. Species, individual identity, and sex of the individual can be determined from scat samples using molecular genetic techniques. Once the information about the individual has been obtained, follow-up questions can be asked. For instance diet composition can be determined using prey species hair found in the scat, and endocrine analyses can provide information about the health and physiology at an individual or population level. Because of their noninvasiveness, these techniques can also be used for long-term monitoring. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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