yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

Collecting Poop to Save a National Park | Expedition Raw


less than 1m read
·Nov 11, 2024

I don't think I'll ever get used to putting my finger up a water box anus. Alright buddy, okay, I wouldn't apologize. Yeah, and it's one less thing you has to become self at all. We want to know what effect the animals are having on this ecosystem, and to do that, I have to know what they're eating. To find out what they're eating, I have to look at their poop, full of pellets.

Cease! When you get a fecal sample, you'll mess around. Just want to be as thorough as possible. In Gorongosa National Park, most of the wildlife was wiped out during the Mozambican Civil War. You want to start on the measurements?

On the other hand, water buck have become ten times more abundant than they were before the Civil War. If we want to understand why the water buck are doing so well, we have to know what their daily lives are like. The best way to do that is not just collecting poop, but also these critter cam collars.

It generally takes us less than 10 minutes to go through the whole process and then administer the reversal drink so they wake up right away. You know, if you were abducted by aliens and you don't really remember any of it, I imagine that's how a water buck feels after this experience.

How much was still in there for me to get? When the animal wakes up and walks off, the collars will start logging their GPS locations, and the cameras will start shooting video. It's giving us a totally unprecedented view of life as a water buck.

More Articles

View All
How to Make a Delicious Meal For Under $10 | Chef Wonderful
Who made this? Oh, I did! Wow, I’m gonna cry. It’s a masterpiece that should get an Emmy, that should get a Tony, all of it. And that still wouldn’t be enough for what that was. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Chef Wonderful here! Let’s talk about suffolak…
Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell
Welcome to the podcast, guys! It’s going to do well. Are you good? Good. Alright, Ryan. So, for those of our listeners who don’t know who you are, what do you work on? So, I started a company five years ago, almost—actually, just over five years ago—call…
Photographing the Wild Wolves of Yellowstone | Exposure
In Rogard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, he has a quote that says, “For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.” Yellowstone lives and breathes wolves. In the last 20 years, I wanted to photograph them and bring that to…
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors | Cosmos: Possible Worlds
OK, just for argument’s sake, suppose we’re nothing more than the sum total of our genetic inheritance. It’s not as bad as it sounds. There are passages in our DNA that are every bit as heroic as anything ever written in any epic saga. [low growl] [gentl…
Is Glass a Liquid?
In 1994, a massive earthquake shook the Northridge suburb of Los Angeles, killing 57 people and injuring over 5000. The cost of damages was in excess of $20 billion. It’s earthquakes like this one that make us question just how solid is the earth beneath …
Analyzing model in vertex form
An object is launched from a platform. Its height in meters, x seconds after the launch, is modeled by h of x is equal to negative 5 times x minus 4 squared plus 180. So normally, when they talk about seconds or time, they usually would use the variable …