Scat, ESA-style

Sorry, all you eagerly anticipatory types, that I've not had a Friday scatblogging for a few weeks.

But, in honor of the Gulf oil spill, the highlighting of President Obama's thin and somewhat spotty presidential and pre-presidential environmental record and other things, I've got a good one:

Tracker dogs sniffing out endangered species by scat.

And, the work is needed, even in places you might not think. The story notes Alabama has 117 endangered species, for example. (Not counting any species on the Alabama Gulf Coast newly endangered by BP oil.)

Anyway, click the link above to read more about the dogs.