AUDIO: HELP WANTED – BEAR POOP COLLECTORS
Canada’s College of New Caledonia in Prince George, British Columbia, has a team of scientists researching urban bear poop. Bear scat holds a wealth of information about the bear’s health, diet, and hormones. By analyzing feces samples from across the city, researchers hope to gain insight into the health and behavior of urban bear populations, as opposed to bears that live outside of the Prince George region. They are asking locals to help, and here’s how!
#1: Send a photo of bear poop you encounter, whether it be in your yard, or in the park down the street, along with the location, and they will come and collect it for you.
#2: You can collect the poop as you would collect your dog’s droppings; using a bag to scoop up the bear feces, and drop it off at the designated bear poop refrigerator located beside the greenhouse at the CNC campus in Prince George.
* And don’t try to pawn off your cat litter. They know the difference.
* It’s kind of a city-wide scavenger hunt, but without fun things to look for.
* Does a bear crap in the city? Have we been mislead all these years?
* Shouldn’t they be concerned that there is so much bear poo in town that they need to study it?
* (play music below) “Right now, there are thousands of bear poops sitting idly in your area, just waiting to be collected by caring people like you. We need your bear poop. Won’t you please help?”
CLIP: Sarah McLaughlin’s “Arms of the Angel”.
