Okay, so this is cool- researchers are tracking cougar populations by using a virus as a tracking device. Virus Used to Track Elusive Cougars
To follow the movements of cougars in remote areas of western North America, a team of biologists has found a different kind of tracking device: a virus.
Borrowing a method used to study human demographics, biologist Roman Biek and his colleagues took samples from 352 cougars in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States and Canada.
The researchers analyzed the samples for strains of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), which is common in big cats and does not appear to affect them.
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Results of the team's research appear in the current issue of the journal Science.
"This is a tool to determine over what spatial scales [the cougars] have moved recently," said Biek, a professor of biology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
That kitty looks kinda mad, doesn't he? He must be thinking of frist.
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