The Desert Botanical Garden and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have teamed up with two specially trained dogs, Circe and Muon, to use their super sniffers to locate endangered orchids.
Scent dog Muon alerts a researcher during an expedition in southern Arizona this summer. Photo: Eirini Pajak
The orchid grows in extremely dense vegetation, making it hard for humans to spot, DBG conservation collections manager Steven Blackwell tells us.Why it matters: When DBG researchers find them, they can collect some of their seeds so they can grow and reintroduce them.Because this plant is so rare, Muon and Circe had to learn how to track them by practicing with a similar orchid that grows in Nevada, Blackwell says.What happened:
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