Dog on the scent of tiger droppings
Updated on 15 February 2009
Maggie the German wirehaired pointer has arrived in Cambodia with an unusual task - sniffing out tiger droppings in one of Cambodia's largest nature reserves.
The unorthodox move to employ a dog trained in Russia to search for signs of the big cats is part of a campaign to boost a tiger population in Asia that has plummeted to as few as 5,000 from 100,000 a century ago.
Starting next week, the salt-and-pepper, six-year-old will begin scouring the undergrowth and sniffing for tiger scent on trees at the 1,158 square mile Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area in northeastern Cambodia.
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