CK9 Odor Detections

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Conservation Canines survey for a variety of odors! They have the ability to detect the scent of scat, caterpillars, noxious weeds and plants, salamanders, PCBs, and even sea turtles. To a Conservation Canine scent detection dog, there is no difference in these odors during a survey. Their focus is finely tuned for the chance to play fetch.

See the list below for odors the CK9s have been trained to detect!

Plants

Knotweed, garlic mustard

Demonstration, Vancouver, British Columbia

(Invasive Plant Council of Metro Vancouver
Year surveyed: 2012.)

: Garlic Mustard Weed

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Amphibians and Reptiles

From left to right: Mt Jemez Salamander, Loggerhead sea turtle, Oregon spotted frog, Sharp-tailed snake

Jemez Mountains, New Mexico

Agency: The Nature Conservancy
Year surveyed: 2012 – 2013

Gulf Islands, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida

(US Fish and Wildlife
Year surveyed: 2011)

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

(Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, Forestry and Fisheries
Year surveyed: 2012)

San Juan Islands, WA

(CCB, UW, Year surveyed: 2012.)

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Small mammals

From left to right: Pacific Pocket Mouse, Water Shrew, Townsend’s long eared bat

: Pacific Pocket Mouse

: Water Shrew

: Townsend’s Long eared bat

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Mesocarnivores

From left to right: American badger, Fisher, Pine marten, Wolverine

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Birds of Prey

From left to right: Barred owl, Spotted owl

Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California

(CCB, UW and USFW
Years surveyed: 2009-2011
Related publication: Using Detection Dogs to Conduct Simultaneous Surveys of Northern Spotted (Strix occidentalis caurina) and Barred Owls (Strix varia).)

Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California

(CCB, UW and USFW
Years surveyed: 2009-2011
Related publication: Using Detection Dogs to Conduct Simultaneous Surveys of Northern Spotted (Strix occidentalis caurina) and Barred Owls (Strix varia).)

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Felines

From left to right: Bobcat, Caracal, Indochinese tiger, Mexican jaguar, Leopard, Lynx, Mountain lion, Serval

North Central Wisconsin

(University of Wisconsin, Steven Point and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Years surveyed: 2011)

Mozambique and South Africa

(Centre for African Conservation Ecology, Years surveyed: 2014)

Mondulkiri National Forest and Phnom Prick Wildlife Sanctuary, Cambodia

(World Wildlife Fund, Year surveyed: 2010)

Emas National Park, Goias State, Brazil
(CCB, Years surveyed: 2006-2008, 2010)
Related publication: Effectiveness of Scat-Detection Dogs in Determining Species Presence in a Tropical Savanna Landscape

Uxpanapa Valley
Las Choapas and Veracruz, Mexico
(CCB, Years surveyed: 2008, 2010-2011)

: Mondulkiri National Forest, Phnom Prick Wildlife Sanctuary
Cambobia
(World Wildlife Fund, Year surveyed:
2010)

Mozambique and South Africa

(Centre for African Conservation Ecology, Years surveyed: 2014)

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Canines

From left to right: Coyote, Dhole, Iberian wolf, Grey wolf, Maned wolf, Mexican grey wolf, Sierra Nevada red fox, Swift fox

Phnom Prick Wildlife Sanctuary and Mondulkiri National Forest, Cambodia

(World Wildlife Fund
Year surveyed: 2010)

Lisbon, Portugal

(Grupo Lobo
Year surveyed: 2013)

Emas National Park, Goias State, Brazil

(CCB, UW,
Years surveyed: 2006-2008)
Related publication: Effectiveness of Scat-Detection Dogs in Determining Species Presence in a Tropical Savanna Landscape.)

White Mountains, Arizona

(University of Arizona
Years surveyed: 2008-2009)

Swift fox, Texas

(Year surveyed: 2014)

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Ungulates

From left to right: Caribou, Moose, Roe deer, White-tailed deer

Oilsands, Alberta, Canada

(CCB, UW,
Years surveyed: 2006-2007, 2009 and 2013
Related publication: The influences of wolf predation, habitat loss, and human activity on caribou and moose in the Alberta oil sands.)

Oilsands, Alberta, Canada

(CCB, UW,
Years surveyed: 2006-2007, 2009 and 2013
Related publication: The influences of wolf predation, habitat loss, and human activity on caribou and moose in the Alberta oil sands.)

Mozambique and South Africa

(Centre for African Conservation Ecology, Year surveyed: 2014)

Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge, Washington State

(WDFW,
Year surveyed: 2012)

Oilsands, Alberta, Canada

(CCB, UW,
Years surveyed: 2013
Related publication: The influences of wolf predation, habitat loss, and human activity on caribou and moose in the Alberta oil sands.)

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Large Mammals

From left to right: Black bear, Giant anteater, Giant armadillo, Grizzly bear, Southern resident killer whale, Spotted hyena, Tapir, Pangolin

Cabinet-Yaak Mountains, Montana

(Montanore Mining Corporation
Year surveyed: 2009)

Emas National Park, Goias State, Brazil

(CCB, UW,
Years surveyed: 2006-2008,
Related publication: Effectiveness of Scat-Detection Dogs in Determining Species Presence in a Tropical Savanna Landscape)

Emas National Park, Goias State, Brazil

(CCB, UW,
Years surveyed: 2006-2008,
Related publication: Effectiveness of Scat-Detection Dogs in Determining Species Presence in a Tropical Savanna Landscape)

Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

(CCB, UW,
Years surveyed: 1999, 2001, 2002
Related publication: Scat detection dogs in wildlife research and management: Application to grizzly and black bears in the Yellowhead Ecosystem, Alberta, Canada)

Cabinet-Yaak Mountains, Montana
(Montanore Mining Corporation
Year surveyed: 2009)

San Juan Islands, Washington State

(CCB, UW,
Years surveyed: 2006 – 2014,
Related publication: Distinguishing the Impacts of Inadequate Prey and Vessel Traffic on an Endangered Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) Population.)

: Mozambique and South Africa
(Year surveyed: 2014)

Emas National Park, Goias State, Brazil

(CCB, UW,
Years surveyed: 2006-2008,
Related publication: Effectiveness of Scat-Detection Dogs in Determining Species Presence in a Tropical Savanna Landscape)