Here’s an important follow-up to our recent Orca story posting. Seems that Tucker the dog is trained to track the scent of orca poop. How, or why…who knows! (Come on, how would you teach a dog to do that!) But University of Washington researchers now use him to help them find and gather these scat samples which, in turn, tell them that the animals aren’t getting enough to eat. Here’s the story…from Seattle Times. Somebody– give that dog a bone! Continue reading →