Detection dogs have been widely used in airports to sniff out drugs and illegal plants and animals, as well as for finding survivors of disasters, but their use in wild animal research is an emerging field. Asian countries have little experience in using sniffer dogs for such research; over the past two years mainland China has acquired scat detection dogs, but has had little success in training them.
過去偵測犬曾被廣泛運用在機場毒品偵測、非法動植物的檢疫，以及災害現場生還者的搜尋上，但運用在野生動物的研究上還算新興領域，亞洲各國至今都沒有用偵測犬做研究的經驗，前兩年中國大陸曾引進排遺偵測犬，可惜沒有訓練成功。