Sam Wasser: "Poop & Poaching"

A-Pod Cast For Killer Whales by Alison Morrow

Sep 25, 201800:57:45Science & Medicine

Sam Wasser is the Director of the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington. He is a poop expert. His studies of Southern Resident killer whale scat has given scientists unprecedented knowledge of t...

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