But recent research has shown that some wild birds' patterns of flights and stopovers during migrations, or moulting times, differ between El Nino and La Nina years.
But for guaranteed otter spotting in the wild, head to Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve.
Tourism to the Lamanai Outpost jungle lodge, in the wild heart of Belize, helps fund the Lamanai Field Research Center (LFRC) -- a not-for-profit venture established in 1992 to promote sustainable land use and tourism in the Central American country.
He insisted on a blank slate, letting student imaginations run wild as opposed to proving that some professor's arcane research actually works.
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They were one of the first animal research projects to use DNA finger-printing techniques in wild animals so as to understand the relationships within a pride.
Lisa Jameson, a research fellow at the HPA, said all animals, whether wild or pets, carry bacteria and viruses.
Aside from the Remote Lands fee for a private driver and guide, the entire cost of the experience goes back to the research base for the continued care and preservation of captive and wild panda populations.
The main event is the all-day Trainer for a Day program (13 and older), which lets guests don a wetsuit and work with a family of bottlenose dolphins alongside animal experts, learning about dolphin behavior and the Dolphin Habitat's research projects that aid in the survival of dolphins in the wild.
Presley used his royalties to fund his research into crop circles and outlined his findings in a book, Wild Things They Don't Tell Us, published in October 2002.
In a pinch, wild hermit crabs will take whatever they can get, says Rafael Lemaitre, a research zoologist at the Smithsonian Institution.
Quite apart from fears about health, which will probably diminish if research continues to show them to be unfounded, there is the question of what happens if something runs wild.
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