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These dogs are finding feces and saving endangered wildlife SEATTLE / CNN — Eba is more than just the Very Good Dog she appears to be, she’s a professional and tracking the scent of killer whale poop floating in Puget Sound. “It’s a three-being team,” said Deborah Giles, a dog handler with Conservation Canines and a biologist at the University of Washington in Seattle. “It’s a coordinated dance between the dog reacting to a scent, the handler being able to interpret that change in body behavior of the dog, and then the boat driver really being in tune with not only the dog an...

How Conservation Canines help save orcas and other endangered wildlife CNN 12/11/2020 By Starre Vartan, CNN © Fred Felleman/Conservation Canines/Center for Conservation Biology Eba the Whale Dog tracks the scat of wildlife through the Conservation Canines program. She's shown with scientists (from left) Samuel Wasser, Deborah Giles and Sadie Youngstrom. Barrel-chested, with the pointy ears of a much larger pooch swiveling above her mellow gaze, Eba is more than just the Very Good Dog she appears to be. She's a professional, working the prow of a moving speedboat, carefull...