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| Population studies can also show if a speicies is in danger of extinction or not. These studies also help us understand the speicies, enviorment, and the world better! Yes that is what I mean. | |
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| By "help us understand the speicies, enviorment, and world better" you mean how they interact with nature, avoid preditors, all the things that help and hurt the speicies and how go about their life? | |
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| Yes they do that and record the data as well as making estimates from random sampling. For non-human, land animal specimens we use a non-harmful methood of trapping. | |
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| So, to do this they need to take DNA samples as well as measurements, pictures, and possibly have tracking devices put on the specimens? How do they get specimens? | |
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| Well we release all of the specimens without permanent damage and try not to do any harm when handling them. Sometimes we release the specimen with a tracker so we can continue further obesrvations. | |
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| You humans are evil, that sounds like kidnapping to me! | |
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