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Environment & Climate

Meet India’s Four-Legged Wildlife Detectives

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Meet India’s Four-Legged Wildlife Detectives

One day in late June, a forest patrol deep in the jungles of Central India came across a distressing sight. Twelve spotted deer and two sambar deer lay dead around a poisoned pond. This was among the biggest cases of suspected mass poisoning of wild herbivores ever reported in the region. But without witnesses, CCTV footage or any other clues, the foresters were stymied. Help arrived in the form of an unlikely but scrappy detective: a Belgian Malinois dog with a highly trained nose. She found th

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