Scatological science: how poo analysis could help save endangered species

5 Nov 2020 |  Professor Rudolf Meier’s research picked up by The Guardian.

The answer may lie in one of nature’s most basic products: poo. “In the past, we had to do two to three years of fieldwork to gather even the most basic information about a species,” says Meier. “Now, with faecal analysis, we can gather information much faster. Not only are we able to extract the host DNA, we also get to learn about its diet, gut flora and parasite load.”…  LINK