The three-toed box turtles, Missouri’s state reptile, crawled and rested somewhere in the woods and under the brush.The pack of floppy-eared, chocolate brown Boykin spaniels, here all the way from ...
Seven Boykin spaniels trained to sniff out turtles by their owner John Rucker helped the Saint Louis Zoo find and tag the box turtles living at the zoo's new WildCare Park These dogs have a nose for ...
Below a clouded sky in the middle of Illinois prairie, a handsome brown spaniel dashed ahead through brambles and bobbed back up with a catch. There, resting in his jaws as his tail wagged, was a ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SPANISH LAKE, Mo. – John Rucker is a turtle ...
Dogs are man's best friend, but it turns out they're also a researcher's best friend, too. The South Bend Tribune reported on four Boykin spaniels tasked with helping researchers gain insights into ...
AGAWAM — Mobie sniffed out three eastern box turtles Wednesday morning, hours before students arrived for Eversource’s wildlife detection and protection training program. Two of the turtles were in a ...
FRANKLIN GROVE -- In Northwestern Illinois near Franklin Grove, there sits 4,000 acres of the Nachusa Grasslands. On Wednesday, May 18, The Chicago Zoological Society led a team of University of ...
Indian River Park is their natural habitat. They creep and crawl through the park — mostly unobserved — 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They move silently through their surroundings. Their natural ...
TOLEDO – Before you can study turtles, you have to find them, and in an environment of hardwood forests, densely covered ground and damp bottomlands such as those at Oak Openings and some of the other ...
AGAWAM, Mass. (WWLP) – A turtle-sniffing dog is joining the staff at Eversource in training to locate and safely relocate turtles. The annual turtle protection program training is part of their ...
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The three-toed box turtles, Missouri’s state reptile, crawled and rested somewhere in the woods and under the brush. The pack of floppy-eared, chocolate brown Boykin spaniels, here ...