UMass Amherst Ecologists Find Wild Bush Dog, a Native of South American Forests, in Remote Central Costa Rica

UMass Amherst Ecologists Find Wild Bush Dog, a Native of South American Forests, in Remote Central Costa Rica

UMass Amherst Ecologists Find Wild Bush Dog, a Native of South American Forests, in Remote Central Costa Rica Trail cam documents unexpected, most northerly sighting of pack-hunting canids May 23, 2019 Contact: Todd Fuller 413/545-4723   AMHERST, Mass. – Wildlife ecologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who are studying different conservation practices in the forests of Costa Rica recently made a startling discovery on a wildlife camera trap – wild bush dogs documented farther north than ever before and at the highest elevation. Doctoral student Carolina Saenz-Bolaños is in Costa Rica comparing land use, management techniques, their effects on species presence and abundance, and human attitudes in four different areas in the rugged Talamanca Mountains: a national park, an adjacent forest reserve, an indigenous territory and nearby unprotected areas. She and her advisor, professor of environmental conservation Todd Fuller at UMass Amherst, with others, report in an article today in Tropical Conservation Science the new, repeated sightings of bush dogs (Speothos venaticus) on trailcams well outside the limit of their...
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PhD Student, Tanya Lama Helps Create First-ever Whole Genome for the Canada Lynx

Click on for full story:        Jennifer Vashon of Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, left, and UMass lynx team coordinator, Tanya Lama, with an adult male lynx from northern Maine whose DNA was used to create first-ever whole genome for the species. The lynx has since been released to the wild. (MassWildlife photo / Bill Byrne)   For more on this story:  https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/scientists-map-genes-thousands-animals-57798111   https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/science/article/Scientists-look-to-map-the-genes-of-thousands-of-13226506.php   http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/09/researchers-reboot-ambitious-effort-sequence-all-vertebrate-genomes-challenges-loom...
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