Answers in excrement: fecal analysis yields insight about wild primates

Mongabay
Jan 29, 2020, 12:22 pm247 pts
Did you ever think about the information we can gain from a simple sample of feces? Wildlife researchers have, and the information they obtain from poop samples can tell them about animals’ reproductive status, parentage, genetic relationships, and presence of parasites or viruses, such as Zika. For decades,…

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