Doggedly Tracking Badgers

Wisconsin's state animal is protected not because of declining populations but because of a lack of any information about them. Since badgers are so rarely seen in the wild two UWM scientists are studying them using homemade hair snares which allow them to track the small carnivore through the DNA found in their hair.

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