In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Brenna Aizen from the Penn Vet Working Dog Center Wildlife Futures Program about dogs sniffing out chronic wasting disease.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Science Highlight: Effect of rapid changes in environmental conditions on canine detection of methyl benzoate
Where to find Brenna: Website | LinkedIn
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla is back with Dr. Charles van Rees to talk about getting into grad school.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Science Highlight: Trail vs. thicket: Evaluating conservation detection dog performance in varied terrain
Where to find Charles: Website | Lab Website | Instagram
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Tim Hofmann, the Scat Dog Handler, Research Manager and Research Coordinator at Cheetah Conservation Fund about his PhD research using detection dogs and other methods to study cheetahs in Namibia and beyond.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Science Highlight: None this week!
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Paul Bunker and Meg Barnes about hot takes in the conservation dog training community.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Science Highlight: None this week!
Where to find Paul: Website |Facebook |Instagram
Where to find Meg: Website |Facebook |Instagram
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Kat Serafina about plants and puppies.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Science Highlight: An approach to identify bias in scent detection dog testing
Where to find Kat: Website | Facebook
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks to Zoos Victoria Wildlife Detection Dog Officer Dr Nick Rutter and Human Surveyor Shari Barmos about Detection Dog Daisy searching for the critically endangered Tea-tree fingers fungus.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Science Highlight: The fluid dynamics of canine olfaction: unique nasal airflow patterns as an explanation of macrosmia
This biologist and her rescue dog help protect bears in the Andes
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Courtney Brown from Einstein K9 about search and rescue, handler scent discrimination, and sensitivity and specificity.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Science Highlight: Conservation detection dogs: A critical review of efficacy and methodology
Problem Solving with Kayla Fratt
Where to find Courtney: Website | Facebook
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Ellen Dymit from Oregon State University about Metabarcoding, SNPs, and microsatellites.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Science Highlight: Training of Ecological Detection Dogs for Wolf Scat (Canis lupus)
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Nicholas Magliocca about jaguars, Central American conservation, and the drug war.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Jaguar conservation is caught in the crossfire of America's 'War on Drugs'
Where to find Nicolas: Website
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Kerry Ryan from Dog Adventures Northwest about dog boarding.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Science Highlight: Evaluating and integrating spatial capture–recapture models with data of variable individual identifiability
Where to find Kerry: Website | Facebook | Instagram
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Naomi Hodges and Dr. Jessica Thomas about Detection Dog Kip searching for Platypus burrows within Coranderrk Creek at Healesville Sanctuary
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Science Highlight: Conservation Detection Dogs Increase Efficacy for Prey Detection at Carnivore GPS Cluster Sites During Summer
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla is back with Esther Matthews to talk about succulent anti-poaching detection dogs.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Where to find Esther: Website | Instagram | Dog’s Instagram
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K9 Conservationists was THRILLED to have the amazing Lauren Wendt of Momentum K9 temporarily join our team to help out in Texas on ocelot surveys. This episode covers many of the challenges and lessons learned on a particularly tricky project. Be sure to listen to our last episode with James and Lisanne for background on ocelots in Texas.
Find Lauren at:
https://momentumk9training.com/
https://www.instagram.com/momentum_k9_training/
https://www.facebook.com/momentumk9llc
https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenmomentumk9/
https://www.youtube.com/@MomentumK9
In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with James Helferich and Dr. Lisanne Petracca about the ocelot project in Texas.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Where to find Dr. Lisanne: Website
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En nuestro último episodio en el microserie español, Daniel y Kayla hablan mas sobre como es el trabajo como conservacionista canino. Si quieren escuchar MÁS episodios en español, solo escríbenos y grabamos otros. Nos encantaría hacer más episodios con conservacionistas y entrenadores de perros. Gracias a Daniel y Camilo por su apoyo en estos episodios.
In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Kendra Carter about K9 field first aid.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Where to find Kendra: Website | Facebook
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En nuestro cuarto episodio en español, Kayla y Daniel hablan sobre ejemplos de investigaciones cuales utilizan perros detectores de conservación. Gracias a Daniel y Camilo para su ayuda en estos episodios!
In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Ann McGloon from Seeking Scent about precision tracking and using hide placement to get the most learning application for your dogs.
Science Highlight: Wildlife detection dog training: A case study on achieving generalization between target odor variations while retaining specificity
All dogs know how to sniff. Do they all know how to problem-solve?
What concepts can we teach our detection dogs by using hide placement? Why would we want to use placement to teach these skills?
Patreon Questions:
Janna: How do we incorporate handler movement and hide placement for training? Especially with the goal of accurate but effectively progressing through searches in wilderness?
Megan: How do you teach the dog to differentiate between visual aids and odor? For instance, I came across a company selling scent work hides, but they're in fun shapes and bright colors, which may make the hide more noticeable. If you use things like that in training, how do you guarantee that the dog is searching for the odor and not searching for the hide itself?
Megan: Odor contamination is a big issue in the competition scent work world. Is this a concern in conservation detection? Can odor contamination in the search environment be used to teach the dog to differentiate between residual odor and the actual source of odor?
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En nuestro tercero episodio del microserie español, Daniel y Kayla hablan de como uno se puede aprender trabajar con perros detectores de conservación. Hablan sobre el educación formal, los cursos disponible, como encontrar internos, y un poco sobre socios. Gracias a Daniel Castillo y Camilo Sierra.
In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Caden Cristopher about conservation, canine welfare, capitalism, and how we’re getting by.
Science Highlight: None
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Where to find Caden: Fenzi | Podcast | Blog | Instagram | Facebook
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