The Mojave Desert tortoise is often a difficult species to study. By collecting and analyzing scat, researchers are able to study the tortoise in a non-invasive manner. https://t.co/mivE7kqTHQ https://t.co/CoIStTjeLZ
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RT @CCB_Journal: Published in a new issue of Chelonian Conservation and Biology, researchers test a non-invasive research technique using f…
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Published in a new issue of Chelonian Conservation and Biology, researchers test a non-invasive research technique using field scat to collect DNA and positively identify individual tortoises. https://t.co/mivE7kqTHQ https://t.co/bqaqLnarVr
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The Mojave Desert tortoise is an elusive animal making it difficult for researchers to study. One technique for gathering data, which researchers used in a newly published study, is noninvasive scat sampling. Read the full study at https://t.co/DK4AgEHQ5Q.