The German shepherd runs off and noses around in the grass of Kenya's Laikipia Plateau. "OK, Oakley," the dog's handler orders, "Find it!" 

Oakley sniffs until he comes to a bush, then stops, sits, and looks up at his handler. She bends to see what he has found: the waste of an endangered African wild dog. "Good dog!" she praises. The handler pulls a tennis ball from her pocket. Oakley jumps for his reward. 

"He doesn't actually want the waste," says Aimee Hurt, a founding member of the U.S.-based group Working Dogs for Conservation. Hurt is in Kenya to train both Oakley and his handler. "He finds it so he can play with his ball. We're the ones who want the waste." 

Detection dogs are sometimes taught to locate actual animals. Black-footed ferrets have been studied with their help. But more often the dogs learn to locate the waste of creatures such as bears, wolves and mountain lions. 

What the dogs find provides scientists with data about a species. Scientists can use the DNA collected from animal waste to identify individuals, sex, and population sizes -- all without ever seeing the animal itself. "It can take years to gather this kind of information if you have to trap animals," Hurt explains. 

Waste analysis might make a huge difference when wild species are accused of attacking domestic livestock . Hurt says, "A good detection dog will find the waste so we can see what the animal is actually eating." This may help reduce problems between people and wildlife.

What are the answers to this following set of questions:

1. Detection dogs are sometimes taught to locate what?
2. what do they normally locate?
3. what do the scientits want it for
4. is there DNA
5. what can it identify?
6. how long would it normally take to gather this info?
7. What kind of dog is Oakley?
8. What's his handler's name?
9. What did he find?
10. What did she give him ?
11. does he want the waste?
12. what did Aimee co-found?
13. where is she?
14. doing?
15. who si she training?
16. and?
17. how does waste analysis help investigate domestic livestock attacks?
18. will that reduce problems?

Numbered answers:
1. actual animals
2. the waste of creatures such as bears, wolves and mountain lions.
3. data about a species
4. Scientists can use the DNA collected from animal waste
5. identify individuals, sex, and population sizes
6. "It can take years to gather this kind of information if you have to trap animals,
7. German shepherd
8. Aimee Hurt
9. the waste of an endangered African wild dog.
10. tennis ball
11. He doesn't actually want the waste
12. the U.S.-based group Working Dogs for Conservation
13. Hurt is in Kenya
14. Waste analysis
15. Oakley
16. The German shepherd
17. "A good detection dog will find the waste so we can see what the animal is actually eating
18. This may help reduce problems between people and wildlife.