Cost-effective scat-detection dogs: unleashing a powerful new tool for international mammalian conservation biology

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	Cost-effective scat-detection dogs: unleashing a powerful new tool for international mammalian conservation biology
	Orkin JD[]1,2,3; Yang YM 4; Yang CY 1; Yu DW 1,5; Jiang XL[]1
刊名	SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
	2016
卷号	6 期号:X 页码:e34758
通讯作者	joseph.orkin@ucalgary.ca ; jiangxl@mail.kiz.ac.cn
合作状况	其它
英文摘要	Recently, detection dogs have been utilized to collect fecal samples from cryptic and rare mammals. Despite the great promise of this technique for conservation biology, its broader application has been limited by the high cost (tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars) and logistical challenges of employing a scat-detection dog team while conducting international, collaborative research. Through an international collaboration of primatologists and the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, we trained and used a detection dog to find scat from three species of unhabituated, free-ranging primates, for less than $3,000. We collected 137 non-human primate fecal samples that we confirmed by sequencing taxonomically informative genetic markers. Our detection dog team had a 92% accuracy rate, significantly outperforming our human-only team. Our results demonstrate that detection dogs can locate fecal samples from unhabituated primates with variable diets, locomotion, and grouping patterns, despite challenging field conditions. We provide a model for in-country training, while also building local capacity for conservation and genetic monitoring. Unlike previous efforts, our approach will allow for the wide adoption of scat-detection dogs in international conservation biology.
收录类别	SCI
资助信息	This research was funded by the National Science Foundation (BCS-1155904), the Leakey Foundation, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (GREKF11-04), the American Philosophical Society’s Louis and Clark Fund, Lambda Alpha, and Washington University in St. Louis. Douglas W. Yu was supported by Yunnan Province (20080A001), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (0902281081, KSCX2-YW-Z-1027), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31170498), and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2012FY110800). Douglas W. Yu and Xuelong Jiang were supported by the State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution at the Kunming Institute of Zoology.
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://159.226.149.26:8080/handle/152453/10552]
专题	昆明动物研究所_动物生态学研究中心昆明动物研究所_遗传资源与进化国家重点实验室昆明动物研究所_兽类生态与进化
作者单位	1.State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Jiaochang Donglu, Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China 2.Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, 1 Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA 3.Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada 4.Kunming Police Dog Training Base, Chinese Ministry of Security, 579 Baiyunlu Kunming, Yunnan, 650204, China 5.School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk NR47TJ, U
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Orkin JD[*],Yang YM,Yang CY,et al. Cost-effective scat-detection dogs: unleashing a powerful new tool for international mammalian conservation biology[J]. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,2016,6(X):e34758.
APA	Orkin JD[],Yang YM,Yang CY,Yu DW,&Jiang XL[].(2016).Cost-effective scat-detection dogs: unleashing a powerful new tool for international mammalian conservation biology.SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,6(X),e34758.
MLA	Orkin JD[*],et al."Cost-effective scat-detection dogs: unleashing a powerful new tool for international mammalian conservation biology".SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 6.X(2016):e34758.