Getting to the bottom of what top predators in an ecosystem are eating is critical to understand how they may be influencing dynamics in the entire system and food web. But how do you figure out what a predator is eating if it’s hard to catch and collar or watch continuously? Easy, you use their poop! Our guest this week, Ellen Dymit, does exactly this with wolves in Alaska and a whole host of carnivores in Central America. Hosted by Lisa Hildebrand and Matt Vaughan.
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