Deer Hunters Assist U of M Researchers In Studying Wildlife Food Webs
Download MP3The Offal Wildlife Watching Project with the University of Minnesota Extension aims at better understanding what Minnesota wildlife species are attracted to and eat the organ meats (offal) in gut piles left from hunters field dressing deer and how offal affects wildlife food webs.
The project asks volunteer hunters to set up camera traps on the offal they leave in the field to capture images of wildlife visitors for one complete month. The project also relies on volunteers to help classify and identify wildlife in our many thousands of captured images each hunting season at Zooniverse.org.
In this week's Outdoor News Podcast episode, host Kalli Hawkins speaks with Ellen Candler, a postdoctoral associate at the University of Minnesota within the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology about the ongoing research.
The Offal Wildlife Watching Project with the University of Minnesota Extension aims at better understanding what Minnesota wildlife species are attracted to and eat the organ meats (offal) in gut piles left from hunters field dressing deer and how offal affects wildlife food webs.
The project asks volunteer hunters to set up camera traps on the offal they leave in the field to capture images of wildlife visitors for one complete month. The project also relies on volunteers to help classify and identify wildlife in our many thousands of captured images each hunting season at Zooniverse.org.
In this week's Outdoor News Podcast episode, host Kalli Hawkins speaks with Ellen Candler, a postdoctoral associate at the University of Minnesota within the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology about the ongoing research.
