Paw prints and feces offer new hope for saving tigers

Thursday, November 18, 2010 - 23:20 in Biology & Nature

How many tigers are left in the wild can now be monitored accurately from their paw prints and scat (feces), ecologists have shown for the first time. The new technique at last gives conservationists a low-cost and reliable way of assessing tiger numbers, information that is crucial to saving the species from extinction in the wild.

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