Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Check out our latest story! Vector, the Wildlife Scent Detecting Dog and the Search for the Elusive Morro Bay Kangaroo Rat


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Vector, the Scent Detection Dog and the Search
for the Elusive Morro Bay Kangaroo Rat

Vector, the wildlife scent detecting dog, with his trainer, Lauralea Oliver, during a break in the search for the elusive Morro Bay kangaroo rat in San Luis Obispos County. Credit: Chris Kofron/USFWS

Vector, the wildlife scent detecting dog, with his trainer, Lauralea Oliver, during a break in the search for the elusive Morro Bay kangaroo rat in San Luis Obispos County. Credit: Chris Kofron/USFWS

 

By Chris Kofron and Ashley Spratt
November 23, 2016

Last spotted in 1986, the Morro bay kangaroo rat has eluded biologists for more than three decades.

While some in the conservation community believe this tiny native mammal may have gone the way of the dodo, two local biologists have reason to believe that a few isolated colonies may still exist in the remaining patches of coastal dune scrub along California's central coast near Los Osos in San Luis Obispo County.

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