Animal protection doesn’t begin and end with stopping poachers (偷猎者). Protection is the main area     1     dogs perform well. Dogs’ noses have the ability     2     (help) find live animals for natural surveys and observing programs, by finding various     3     (sign) animals leave.

Dogs provide important support in finding rare or     4     (threaten) wildlife—from koala and quoll in the Australian bush, to pine marten and crested newt in Britain’s countryside.

One of the world’s leading protection discovery dog trainers     5     (be) the non-profit Working Dogs for Protection. Co-founder Megan Parker was born in Missoula, Montana and has trained dogs     6     years to find scat (粪便), as one of the least harmful ways to find out where endangered species live and their numbers.

Smell detection has so far helped find populations of     7     fiercest predator (捕食者)—the killer whale—in the north eastern pacific and the     8     (rare) gorilla in the world—the Cross River gorilla—in the highland forests of Nigeria and Cameroon.

And now using the dog’s     9     (strong) is helping protectionists manage habitat for bears in the US Rockies and Yellowstone.

Protection by using the dog’s unbelievable smell abilities to preserve other species     10     (regard) as nature helping nature, but it is a solid fact that these specialized wildlife dogs are here to stay.