The terrier had a keen nose for turtles, identifying 560 sea turtle nests from three species. This could be a game changer.
A friendly competition, a dog behaviorist and former police K9 handler who has trained scent-detection dogs for more than 20 years. Peruyero selected a rescue dog named Dory, a two-year-old terrier mix found wandering along a Florida highway, as the project’s poster dog.
Over months of training on a 50-by-50 square foot artificial beach, Peruyero trained Dory to alert at the scent of “cloacal mucus,” a sticky substance that coats a sea turtle’s freshly laid eggs, with Lindborg as her handler. Then, the team convinced the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to allow a friendly competitionDuring the peak nesting seasons of 2017 and 2018, two dueling groups patrolled a stretch of shoreline about five miles long in Vero Beach,Some days, Dory and Lindborg were responsible for flagging the location of sea turtle eggs based on Dory’s sense of smell.
Dory was also significantly better than her human counterparts at choosing where to dig for eggs, substantially reducing the number of holes dug and overall length of a patrol, Lindborg reports. She was also harder to “stump”—while human volunteers couldn’t find the eggs in 14.8 percent of nests, Dory only failed to deliver 5.7 percent of the time.
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