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  • U of I researchers use dogs to sniff out threatened turtles

    May 11, 2021 2:45 pm by Associated PressIllinois in the News
    Dog handler John Rucker collects an ornate box turtle that one of his Boykin spaniels located and brought to him Thursday, May 6, 2021, at the Nachusa Grasslands, near Franklin Grove in Lee County, Ill. A team of researchers and veterinary students from the University of Illinois Wildlife Epidemiology Laboratory located and did health assessments in the field on the threatened turtles. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune via AP)

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    Associated Press (May 10) A team paced through the Nachusa Grasslands in Lee County trying to spot the small turtles, aided by a group of Boykin spaniels that can sniff out the turtles’ trail.

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