Mammals of Nova Scotia with Ms Wong-Tang: It's all in the poop! Thursday April 16

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Why use poop as part of our data gathering ?

How do you collect droppings? What is the scientific procedure to collect droppings?

At Apr 16, 2009 5:22:00 PM , Anonymous said...: i wonder if animals in nova scotia have thicker coats because it is colder? Lw
At Apr 16, 2009 5:25:00 PM , Anonymous said...: can you tell anything else from animal scat then just what it ate?-LW

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At Apr 16, 2009 6:56:00 PM , Anonymous said...: I wonder what the poop looks like?
-jw
At Apr 16, 2009 7:33:00 PM , Anonymous said...: How does looking at animal droppings help discover the hare population and is it easy to find the poop in the search area?

RG
At Apr 17, 2009 7:48:00 AM , Paula P. said...: Go Mrs. Tang! We're watching your progress from home and Mom has tweeted your blog on Twitter & Facebook! Blake P. - Mrs. Wieden's 1st grade.
At Apr 17, 2009 12:55:00 PM , MaeBee Jewelry said...: What fun you are having, Mrs. Tang! And important stuff. Keep up the great work! - The Evenhuis Family
At Apr 18, 2009 7:37:00 AM , Anonymous said...: I wonder if the droppings have anything unusual? -GB
At Apr 22, 2009 9:04:00 AM , Anonymous said...: Maybe you close the trap doors in the evening because an animal might get inside the trap and then maybe a hour later it might come out and during , when your sleep you wont have any Nocturnal animals to study.

If the trap sits in the sun to long it might get to hot for the animals to get in an you wont have any Nocturnal animals to study.

The conditions to the low numbers are that the animals could keep going down on population

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