By Christiane Oelrich
DPA
Sen Monorom, Cambodia - Labrador mongrels Sadie and Scooby leap through the thick undergrowth of Cambodia's jungle, chasing their prey.
Finally, success. Scooby barks excitedly and marks his target. An exceptionally big and smelly pile of tiger droppings.
The two dogs have been trained in the US to hunt down the big cats' traces in Cambodia's huge tropical forest. They were hired, together with their handlers, by the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF).
The droppings are to help biologists determine how many tigers and leopards are still left in this wilderness region.
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